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Over 7.7 Million Lowest-Income Households are Severely Housing Cost-Burdened, Spending More Than Half of Their Incomes on Housing

Apr 06, 2020

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Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes; NLIHC tabulations of 2018 ACS PUMS data.

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