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July 16, 2018

Fact of the Week: Housing Assistance Fails to Keep Up with Need

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (2018) The State of the Nation's Housing Washington, DC

July 9, 2018

Fact of the Week: Rents Are Unaffordable for Many Renters, Especially Those with Extremely Low Incomes

NLIHC’s Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018. NLIHC calculation of a weighted-average HUD fair market rent. Affordable rent for average renter wage is based on BLS QCEW 2016, adjusted to…

July 2, 2018

Fact of the Week: Seven of the Ten Fastest Growing Occupations in the U.S. Don’t Pay Enough for a One or Two Bedroom Apartment

Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018. Housing wages are derived from HUD fair market rents. Employment projections from BLS Employment Projections Program. Occupational wages…

June 25, 2018

Fact of the Week: Shortage of Affordable Homes for Lowest Income Renters Has Grown Significantly in Last Ten Years

Source: JCHS tabulations of NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2018

June 12, 2018

Take Action: Urge Representatives to Vote “No” On Flawed Opioid Bill

Call to Action

The House of Representatives will vote Thursday, June 14 on H.R. 5735, the “Transitional Housing for Recovery in Viable Environments Demonstration Program (THRIVE) Act,” introduced by Representative…

June 11, 2018

Fact of the Week: U.S. Lags Far Behind Other Developed Countries in Providing Low Income Housing Assistance

Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Affordable Housing Database, 2018

June 4, 2018

Fact of the Week: Large Share of HUD-Assisted Households Have Members with Disabilities

Source: American Housing Survey, 2015.

May 29, 2018

Fact of the Week: Blacks and Hispanics at all Education Levels Disproportionately Unable to Pay Monthly Bills

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (2018). Report on the economic well-being of U.S. households in 2017. Washington, DC: Author.

May 21, 2018

Fact of the Week: Non-Elderly HUD-Assisted Households Get Off Assistance after 4-5 Years on Average

Source: McClure, K. (2017) Length of stay in assisted housing. Washington, DC: HUD

May 14, 2018

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Renter Households are Disproportionately Seniors and People with Disabilities

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2016 ACS PUMS data presented in The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

May 8, 2018

National Low Income Housing Coalition Commends Advocacy Organizations for Filing Fair Housing Lawsuit Against HUD

Washington, DC - The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) commends the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, and Texas Appleseed for filing a…

February 13, 2017

Fact of the Week: Large Share of HUD-Assisted Households Have a Disability

Memo to Members

Source: Dawkins, C. & Miller, M. (2017). The characteristics and unmet housing program needs of disabled HUD-assisted households. Housing Policy Debate.

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