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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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Decline in Homelessness Between 2024 and 2025 Driven by Decrease in Major Cities

Note: Persons experiencing homelessness include those living in emergency shelters, transition housing, safe havens, and locations not meant for human habitation. Source:…

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Renter Households that Include a Person with a Disability Experience Higher Rates of Housing Quality Issues Compared to Non-Disability Renter Households

Note: Disability households have at least one member with a disability. Source: Trivedi, K. & Brucker, D. L. (2026). Federal rental assistance and housing outcomes…

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The Majority of People Who Could Lose Housing Assistance Under HUD’s Proposed Work Requirements and Time Limits are in Working Households

Note: Working households mean households with at least one member reporting wage income. Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “Nearly 3.7 Million People at…

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

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/

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Facts of the Week

Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Decline in Homelessness Between 2024 and 2025 Driven by Decrease in Major Cities

Renter Households that Include a Person with a Disability Experience Higher Rates of Housing Quality Issues Compared to Non-Disability Renter Households

The Majority of People Who Could Lose Housing Assistance Under HUD’s Proposed Work Requirements and Time Limits are in Working Households

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

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