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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.

February 13, 2018

Fact of the Week: Nine in Ten Households Receiving HUD Rental Assistance Are Elderly, Disabled, Working, or Receiving TANF

Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of 2015 and 2016 HUD administrative data.

February 5, 2018

Fact of the Week: Number of Low-Cost Rental Homes Declined while High-Cost Rentals Surged from 2006 to 2016

Source: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, America’s Rental Housing 2017, www.jchs.harvard.edu. All rights reserved. An interactive chart for U.S. and metro areas is available at: http://bit.ly/2DVsELA

January 29, 2018

Fact of the Week: Mayors Cite Lack of State or Federal Funds as Biggest Obstacle to Addressing Need for Affordable Housing

Source: Boston University Initiative on Cities. (2018) Menino Survey of Mayors: 2017. Boston, MA

January 22, 2018

Fact of the Week: Poor Households with Severe Housing Cost Burdens Face Greater Housing Instability

Source: American Housing Survey, 2013

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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 Households Receiving HUD Rental Assistance Are Elderly, Disabled, Working, or Receiving TANF

Fact of the Week: Number of Low-Cost Rental Homes Declined while High-Cost Rentals Surged from 2006 to 2016

Fact of the Week: Mayors Cite Lack of State or Federal Funds as Biggest Obstacle to Addressing Need for Affordable Housing

Fact of the Week: Poor Households with Severe Housing Cost Burdens Face Greater Housing Instability