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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.

December 4, 2017

Fact of the Week: Large Share of FEMA Registrants in Puerto Rico Live in Deep Poverty

Source: FEMA Housing Assistance Data (10/29/2017); 2011-15 American Community Survey

November 20, 2017

Fact of the Week: Housing Credit Opportunity Provision Decreased Concentration of Projects in High-Poverty Neighborhoods in San Antonio

Source: Water, R., Wang, R., Jones, S. (2017). Comparing opportunity metrics and locational outcomes in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Journal of Planning Education and Research: http://bit.ly/2zkga1U

November 13, 2017

Fact of the Week: Most of the Benefit of the Mortgage Interest Deduction Goes to Higher Income Households

Source: Joint Committee on Taxation. (2017). Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures for Fiscal Years 2016-2020. Table 3.

November 6, 2017

Fact of the Week: In Most States and Counties, Fewer than 3% of Mortgages Exceed $500,000

Source: NLIHC analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data on mortgages originated during 2013 and 2014.

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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: Large Share of FEMA Registrants in Puerto Rico Live in Deep Poverty

Fact of the Week: Housing Credit Opportunity Provision Decreased Concentration of Projects in High-Poverty Neighborhoods in San Antonio

Fact of the Week: Most of the Benefit of the Mortgage Interest Deduction Goes to Higher Income Households

Fact of the Week: In Most States and Counties, Fewer than 3% of Mortgages Exceed $500,000