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State Data Overview
Across Missouri, there is a shortage of rental homes affordable and available to extremely low income households (ELI), whose incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income (AMI). Many of these households are severely cost burdened, spending more than half of their income on housing. Severely cost burdened poor households are more likely than other renters to sacrifice other necessities like healthy food and healthcare to pay the rent, and to experience unstable housing situations like evictions.
Housing Profiles
Missouri
Key Facts
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202,625 OR 25%
Renter households that are extremely low-income
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-127,678
Shortage of rental homes affordable and available for extremely low-income renters
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$30,520
Average income limit for 4-person extremely low income household
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$46,157
Annual household income needed to afford a two-bedroom rental home at HUD's Fair Market Rent (FMR)
Impact on Low-Wage Workers
A minimum wage worker would need to work:
- 49 hours per week or 1.2 full-time jobs to afford a 1-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent (FMR).
- 59 hours per week or 1.5 full-time jobs to afford a 2-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent (FMR).
Most Expensive Areas 2-Bedroom Housing Wage Kansas City HMFA $26.12 St. Louis HMFA $23.42 Columbia HMFA $22.31 Springfield HMFA $21.06 St. Joseph MSA $20.71 Common Occupations Median Hourly Wage Nursing Assistants $18.61 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $17.74 Retail Salespersons $16.54 Home Health and Personal Care Aides $16.34 Fast Food and Counter Workers $15.02 Solutions
- Provide significant resources to build and preserve homes affordable to renters with the lowest incomes through investments in public housing and the national Housing Trust Fund
- Encourage states and local communities to reform zoning and land use regulations that prevent housing from being built and push up housing costs
- Bridge the gap between incomes and housing costs by expanding rental assistance so that it is universally available to all eligible households or consider other innovative approaches, such as a fully refundable renters’ tax credit
- Prevent evictions and homelessness by creating permanent tools, such as emergency rental assistance, to help stabilize families in crisis
- Other federal housing resources, including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, should be reformed to better address the shortage of rental housing affordable to the lowest-income households.
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State Level Partners
NLIHC Housing Advocacy Organizer
Kayla Gilchrist
State PartnersEmpower Missouri
308 East High Street, Suite 100
Jefferson City, MO 65101
P (573) 416-0760
www.empowermissouri.orgMallory Rusch
Executive Director
[email protected]Sarah Owsley
Director of Policy and Advocacy
[email protected]Become an NLIHC State Partner
NLIHC’s affiliation with our state coalition partners is central to our advocacy efforts. Although our partners' involvement varies, they are all housing and homeless advocacy organizations engaged at the state and federal level. Many are traditional coalitions with a range of members; others are local organizations that serve more informally as NLIHC's point of contact.
Inquire about becoming a state partner by contacting [email protected]
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Housing Trust FundHTF Implementation Information
NLIHC continues working with leaders in each state and the District of Columbia who will mobilize advocates in support of HTF allocation plans that benefit ELI renters to the greatest extent possible. Please contact the point person coordinating with NLIHC in your state (below) to find out about the public participation process and how you can be involved.
Current Year HTF Allocation$3,647,539
HTF State Resources2020
Draft Annual Action Plan with HTF content on page 72 (PDF)
2019 HTF Allocation Plan attached to 2020 Draft Action Plan (PDF)
2019
Draft Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 85 (PDF)
2019 HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)
2018
2018 HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)
2017
Final 2017 HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)
Summary of revisions to 2016 HTF Allocation Plan to be in 2017 HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)
2017 HTF Application Workshop webinar slides (PDF)
2016
HUD-Approved HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)
Final Allocation Plan from Missouri Housing Development Commission, Approved July 14, 2016 (PDF)
Revisions to Draft HTF Allocation Plan released by Missouri Housing Development Commission (PDF)
First draft HTF Allocation Plan by Missouri Housing Development Commission (PDF)
MHDC webinar slides, NHTF: What We Know and Where We Are Going (PDF)
Empower Missouri HTF Allocation Plan comments submitted May 10, 2016 (PDF)
Comments submitted by St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council dated July 1, 2016 (PDF)
Missouri-specific model HTF Allocation Plan by NLIHC dated May 2016 (PDF)
Recording of NLIHC’s Missouri-specific Allocation Plan advocacy webinar dated May 3 (WMV)
Allocation Plan advocacy Missouri-specific webinar slides by NLIHC (PDF)
State Designated EntityState Entity Webpage
Missouri Housing Development CommissionOfficial Directly Involved with HTF ImplementationJulie Smith
Director of Affordable Housing
Missouri Housing Development Commission
816-759-7265
[email protected]Cristina Dusenbery
Manager of HUD Programs
816-759-6864
[email protected]NHTF-specific Pages
National Housing Trust Fund Program
Multifamily Projection Program (NOFAs)
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ResourcesResources
Housing Profiles
State Housing Profile
State Housing Profile: Missouri (PDF)
Congressional District Housing Profile
Congressional District Profile: Missouri (PDF)
Research and Data
National Housing Preservation Database
The National Housing Preservation Database is an address-level inventory of federally assisted rental housing in the United States.
Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing
Out of Reach documents the gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing. In Missouri and Nationwide
The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes
The Gap represents data on the affordable housing supply and housing cost burdens at the national, state, and metropolitan levels. In Missouri and Nationwide
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