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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.

October 30, 2017

Fact of the Week: Large Share of TX Renters Requesting FEMA Assistance Come from Higher Poverty Areas

Source: FEMA Housing Assistance Data (10/23/2017); 2011-2015 American Community Survey.

October 23, 2017

Fact of the Week: Whites Receive Disproportionate Share of Mortgage Deduction Benefit

Source: IASP & NLIHC. (2017). Misdirected Investments: How the Mortgage Interest Deduction Drives Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap. Washington, DC: NLIHC. Available at: http://bit.ly/2gIy7LZ

October 16, 2017

Fact of the Week: High Income Households Benefit the Most from Two Largest Forms of Federal Housing Assistance

Source: Apartment List. (2017). Imbalance in Housing Aid: Mortgage Interest Deduction vs. Section 8. San Francisco, CA: Author.

October 10, 2017

Fact of the Week: Republicans’ Proposed Tax Cuts Go Mostly to Those with Highest Incomes

Source: Tax Policy Center (2017). A Preliminary Analysis of the United Framework. 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: Large Share of TX Renters Requesting FEMA Assistance Come from Higher Poverty Areas

Fact of the Week: Whites Receive Disproportionate Share of Mortgage Deduction Benefit

Fact of the Week: High Income Households Benefit the Most from Two Largest Forms of Federal Housing Assistance

Fact of the Week: Republicans’ Proposed Tax Cuts Go Mostly to Those with Highest Incomes