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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.

July 31, 2017

Fact of the Week: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Have Much Higher Poverty and Lower Homeownership Rates than Whites

Source: Prosperity Now. (2017). Prosperity Now Scorecard. Retrieved from: http://scorecard.prosperitynow.org/

July 24, 2017

Fact of The Week: President Trump’s Tax Proposals Skewed Heavily to Wealthy

Source: Tax Policy Center. (2017). The Implications of What We Know and Don’t Know About President Trump’s Tax Plan. Washington, DC: Author.

July 17, 2017

Fact of The Week: House Appropriations Committee Proposes Significant USDA Rural Housing Budget Cuts for FY18

July 10, 2017

Fact of The Week: Range of Factors Affect Homeownership Gap between Whites and Hispanics

Source: Freddie Mac. (2017). Will the Hispanic Homeownership Gap Persist? Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2uiW5lq

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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: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Have Much Higher Poverty and Lower Homeownership Rates than Whites

Fact of The Week: President Trump’s Tax Proposals Skewed Heavily to Wealthy

Fact of The Week: House Appropriations Committee Proposes Significant USDA Rural Housing Budget Cuts for FY18

Fact of The Week: Range of Factors Affect Homeownership Gap between Whites and Hispanics