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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.

March 12, 2018

Fact of the Week: Increases in Minimum Wages Correspond to Greater Wage Growth for Lowest Income Workers

Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata. See: http://bit.ly/2DbzITd

March 5, 2018

Fact of the Week: Higher Percentages of Black and Hispanic Renter Households Are Extremely Low Income

Extremely low income households have incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income. Source: NLIHC tabulation of 2016 ACS PUMS.

February 26, 2018

Fact of the Week: Most Minority Renters Suffer Housing Cost Burdens

“Housing cost burden” defined as spending more than 30% of household income on rent and utilities. Source: Prosperity Now. (2018). 2018 Scorecard. Washington, DC: Author

February 20, 2018

Fact of the Week: President's FY19 Budget Proposal Would Slash Key HUD Programs

Source: NLIHC analysis of FY17 enacted appropriations and the Trump administration’s proposed FY19 budget

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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: Increases in Minimum Wages Correspond to Greater Wage Growth for Lowest Income Workers

Fact of the Week: Higher Percentages of Black and Hispanic Renter Households Are Extremely Low Income

Fact of the Week: Most Minority Renters Suffer Housing Cost Burdens

Fact of the Week: President's FY19 Budget Proposal Would Slash Key HUD Programs