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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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In Most States & Territories, Affordability Restrictions on Thousands of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Homes will Expire by 2030

Source: 2026 National Housing Preservation Database

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NLIHC’s Renter Survey Finds 3 out of 4 Movers Reported that a Low or No Credit Score Was a Difficulty in Renting a New Home

Source: NLIHC 2025 National Renter Survey report, available at https://nlihc.org/national-renter-survey

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Nearly a Third of Veterans with Disabilities are Housing Cost-Burdened, Compared to a Fifth of Veterans without Disabilities

Note: Analysis was limited to noninstitutionalized adults aged 18 through 64 who did not live in group quarters. Source: Exhibit 1.2 from Pasciuti et al. (2026) Veterans and…

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.

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

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Facts of the Week

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

In Most States & Territories, Affordability Restrictions on Thousands of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Homes will Expire by 2030

NLIHC’s Renter Survey Finds 3 out of 4 Movers Reported that a Low or No Credit Score Was a Difficulty in Renting a New Home

Nearly a Third of Veterans with Disabilities are Housing Cost-Burdened, Compared to a Fifth of Veterans without Disabilities

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

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