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Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2020 5-Year ACS PUMS and HUD Picture of Subsidized Households (POSH) data.

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Severe Housing Cost Burdens are Common and Widespread for the Lowest-Income Renters but Not for Higher-Income Renters

Note: A household has “severe cost burden” when it spends more than 50% of its income on rent and utilities. Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

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Efforts to Criminalize Homelessness Negatively Impact Service Providers’ Clients

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, Pulse Check Survey (2026). https://endhomelessness.org/resources/research-and-analysis/pulse-check-surveying-the-field-in-uncertain-…

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Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

June 11, 2018

Fact of the Week: U.S. Lags Far Behind Other Developed Countries in Providing Low Income Housing Assistance

Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Affordable Housing Database, 2018

June 4, 2018

Fact of the Week: Large Share of HUD-Assisted Households Have Members with Disabilities

Source: American Housing Survey, 2015.

May 29, 2018

Fact of the Week: Blacks and Hispanics at all Education Levels Disproportionately Unable to Pay Monthly Bills

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (2018). Report on the economic well-being of U.S. households in 2017. Washington, DC: Author.

May 21, 2018

Fact of the Week: Non-Elderly HUD-Assisted Households Get Off Assistance after 4-5 Years on Average

Source: McClure, K. (2017) Length of stay in assisted housing. Washington, DC: HUD

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Facts of the Week

Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Severe Housing Cost Burdens are Common and Widespread for the Lowest-Income Renters but Not for Higher-Income Renters

Efforts to Criminalize Homelessness Negatively Impact Service Providers’ Clients

Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Fact of the Week: U.S. Lags Far Behind Other Developed Countries in Providing Low Income Housing Assistance

Fact of the Week: Large Share of HUD-Assisted Households Have Members with Disabilities

Fact of the Week: Blacks and Hispanics at all Education Levels Disproportionately Unable to Pay Monthly Bills

Fact of the Week: Non-Elderly HUD-Assisted Households Get Off Assistance after 4-5 Years on Average