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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.

April 16, 2018

Fact of the Week: Nine in Ten Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Extremely Low Income Renter Households are Seniors, People with Disabilities, Care Givers, or Involved in Labor Force or School

Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2018.

April 9, 2018

Fact of the Week: Homelessness Victimizes Black People Disproportionately

Source: SPARC. (2018). Phase One Study Findings. Needham, MA: Center for Social Innovation.

April 2, 2018

Fact of the Week: Despite Strong Gains in FY18, Most HUD Programs Have Lost Ground since FY10

Source: NLIHC analysis of federal appropriations enacted by Congress

March 26, 2018

Fact of the Week: Eight Million of Lowest Income Households in the U.S. Are Severely Housing Cost Burdened

Cost Burden = households spending more than 30% of their income on housing. Severely Cost Burden = households spending more than 50% of their income on housing. Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2018 at: http://nlihc.org/gap

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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: Nine in Ten Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Extremely Low Income Renter Households are Seniors, People with Disabilities, Care Givers, or Involved in Labor Force or School

Fact of the Week: Homelessness Victimizes Black People Disproportionately

Fact of the Week: Despite Strong Gains in FY18, Most HUD Programs Have Lost Ground since FY10

Fact of the Week: Eight Million of Lowest Income Households in the U.S. Are Severely Housing Cost Burdened