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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.

September 5, 2017

Fact of The Week: HUD-Assisted Adults with Disabilities Have Higher Rates of Health Issues

Source: Brucker, D. L, Helms, V., Souza, T. (2017). Health and health services access among adults with disabilities who receive federal housing assistance. Housing Policy Debate, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2017.1357048.

August 28, 2017

Fact of the Week: U.S. Among OECD Countries with Highest Overburdened Low Income Private Market Renter Households

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Affordable Housing Database, 2017. OECD countries have high income, developed economies.

August 21, 2017

Fact of The Week: Use of Small Area FMRs Increases Number of Rental Homes in Higher Income Areas that Rent Below Fair Market Rents

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2017)

August 14, 2017

Fact of The Week: Households with Worst Case Housing Needs Increased Across All Family Types from 2013 to 2015

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2017). Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2ftHf9t

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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: HUD-Assisted Adults with Disabilities Have Higher Rates of Health Issues

Fact of the Week: U.S. Among OECD Countries with Highest Overburdened Low Income Private Market Renter Households

Fact of The Week: Use of Small Area FMRs Increases Number of Rental Homes in Higher Income Areas that Rent Below Fair Market Rents

Fact of The Week: Households with Worst Case Housing Needs Increased Across All Family Types from 2013 to 2015