Fact of the Week: Eight Million of Lowest Income Households in the U.S. Are Severely Housing Cost Burdened

Mar 26, 2018

From The Gap—Figure 4: Renter Households with Cost Burden by Income Group, 2016

Cost Burden = households spending more than 30% of their income on housing.  Severely Cost Burden = households spending more than 50% of their income on housing.

Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2018 at: http://nlihc.org/gap