Low Income Veterans Who Served After 9/11 More Likely than Other Veterans to Experience Housing Cost Burden

Percentage of Veteran Households that Experienced Severe Housing Cost Burden by Period of Service and Income Category, 2011

                                        OEF/OIF/OND*        Earlier Cohort
ELI (0-30% AMI)                87                           70
VLI (31-50% AMI)              42                           29
LI (51-80% AMI)                12                           12
   
*OEF/OIF/OND (Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn) refers to the nearly 2 million service men and women who were deployed abroad after September 11, 2001.

Source: Arnold, A, Bolton, M. & Crowley, S. (November 2013). Housing Instability among Our Nation’s Veterans. Washington DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition. Retrieved from www.nlihc.org/veterans.