Six in Ten Households Experiencing Residual-Income Housing Cost Burdens Make Less than $30,000 Annually

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Source: Airgood-Obrycki et al., “‘The Rent Eats First’: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the United States,” Housing Policy Debate (2022).

Note: Residual-income housing cost burden occurs when households, after paying for housing, do not have enough remaining income to cover non-housing basic expenses.