Fact of The Week: Percent of Workforce by State That Would Benefit from $12 Federal Minimum Wage
Source: Economic Policy Institute (2015). Raising the minimum wage to $12 by 2020 would lift wages for 35 million American workers. Washington, DC: Author.
Fact of The Week: Number of Homeless by Shelter Status, 2007-2015
Source: Henry, M., et al. (2015). The 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress: November 2015. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Fact of The Week: New Mortgages over $500,000 by County (2012–2014)
Source: A Rare Occurrence: The Geography and Race of Mortgages Over $500,000 available at: http://nlihc.org/research/rare-occurrence.
Fact of The Week: Share of Voucher Households Feeling Safe at Night in their Neighborhood
Source: Pendall, R., et al. (2015). Driving to Opportunities: Voucher Users, Cars, and Movement to Sustainable Neighborhoods. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. Vol 17(2), p.…
Fact of the Week: TANF Benefits as Percentage of Monthly Income Needed to Afford 2-Bedroom Fair Market Rent
Note: TANF benefits for a single-parent family of three as of July 2015. Source: Floyd, Ife and Liz Schott. (2015). TANF Cash Benefits Have Fallen by More Than 20 Percent in Most States and…
Fact of the Week: HUD-Assisted Housing in Walkable Neighborhoods, but also Compromised Quality
Note: Compromised quality is the combination of poor quality school within ½ mile, home values below the area median, and high rate (40% or more) of African-American or Hispanic segregation.…
Fact of the Week: Increases in Supplemental Poverty Rates When Specific Assistance is Removed
Source: Short, Kathleen (2015). The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2014. United States Census, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Fact of the Week: Percentage of U.S. Renter Households by Income Spending More than 30% of Income on Housing
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates
Fact of the Week: Severely Cost Burdened Renter Households, Actual and Projected in 2025
Source: Enterprise Community Partners and Join Center for Housing Studies (2015). Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1WeclwG
Fact of the Week: Poverty Rates by Age and Sex: 2014
Source: DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor. (2015). Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau.
Fact of the Week: Wage Declines for the 10 Largest, Low Wage Occupations, 2009 to 2014
Source: National Employment Law Project. (2015). Occupational Wage Declines Since the Great Recession: Low-Wage Occupations See Largest Real Wage Declines. Retrieved from http://bit…