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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.

June 5, 2017

Fact of The Week: Low and Median Wages Barely Increased Since 1973, While Those at the Top Saw Sizeable Gains

Note: Wages in 2016 dollars. Source: Economic Policy Institute’s State of Working America Data Library

May 30, 2017

Fact of The Week: Why Renters Move

Source: Federal Reserve Board. (2017). Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2016. Washington, DC: Author.

May 22, 2017

Fact of The Week: Rents Outpace Wages and Income, 2007-2015

Source: 1-yr American Community Survey, Economic Policy Institute (2016), dollars adjusted for inflation.

May 8, 2017

Fact of The Week: Most HUD Programs Experienced Major Funding Reductions from FY10 to FY17

Note: Adjusted for inflation. Source: NLIHC

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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: Low and Median Wages Barely Increased Since 1973, While Those at the Top Saw Sizeable Gains

Fact of The Week: Why Renters Move

Fact of The Week: Rents Outpace Wages and Income, 2007-2015

Fact of The Week: Most HUD Programs Experienced Major Funding Reductions from FY10 to FY17