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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.

January 16, 2018

Fact of the Week: Small Area Fair Market Rents Increase Affordable Units in High-Rent Neighborhoods

Source: NYU Furman Center (2018).

January 8, 2018

Fact of the Week: School-Age Children in Renter Households Exposed to Asthma Triggers at Significantly Higher Rates than in Homeowner Households

Source: Urban Institute, Analysis of the 2015 American Housing Survey.

December 18, 2017

Fact of the Week: Over 80% of Lowest Income Households Suffer Housing Cost Burdens

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). America’s Rental Housing 2017. Cambridge, MA: Author.

December 11, 2017

Fact of the Week: Significant Increase in People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in 2017

Source: HUD. (2017). The 2017 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress. Washington, DC: Author.

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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: Small Area Fair Market Rents Increase Affordable Units in High-Rent Neighborhoods

Fact of the Week: School-Age Children in Renter Households Exposed to Asthma Triggers at Significantly Higher Rates than in Homeowner Households

Fact of the Week: Over 80% of Lowest Income Households Suffer Housing Cost Burdens

Fact of the Week: Significant Increase in People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in 2017