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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.

May 14, 2018

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Renter Households are Disproportionately Seniors and People with Disabilities

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2016 ACS PUMS data presented in The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

May 7, 2018

Fact of the Week: Eight Out of Every Ten HUD-Assisted Households Have Annual Incomes Below $20,000

Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households, 2017

April 30, 2018

Fact of the Week: South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware Lead the Nation in Eviction Rates

Source: The Eviction Lab at Princeton University: https://evictionlab.org/

April 23, 2018

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Households are the Most Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 1-year American Community Survey PUMS data.

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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: Lowest Income Renter Households are Disproportionately Seniors and People with Disabilities

Fact of the Week: Eight Out of Every Ten HUD-Assisted Households Have Annual Incomes Below $20,000

Fact of the Week: South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware Lead the Nation in Eviction Rates

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Households are the Most Severely Housing Cost-Burdened