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November 16, 2015

Fact of The Week: New Mortgages over $500,000 by County (2012–2014)

Memo to Members

Source: A Rare Occurrence: The Geography and Race of Mortgages Over $500,000 available at: http://nlihc.org/research/rare-occurrence.

November 2, 2015

Fact of The Week: Share of Voucher Households Feeling Safe at Night in their Neighborhood

Memo to Members

Source: Pendall, R., et al. (2015). Driving to Opportunities: Voucher Users, Cars, and Movement to Sustainable Neighborhoods. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. Vol 17(2), p.…

October 26, 2015

Fact of the Week: TANF Benefits as Percentage of Monthly Income Needed to Afford 2-Bedroom Fair Market Rent

Memo to Members

Note: TANF benefits for a single-parent family of three as of July 2015. Source: Floyd, Ife and Liz Schott. (2015). TANF Cash Benefits Have Fallen by More Than 20 Percent in Most States and…

October 19, 2015

Fact of the Week: HUD-Assisted Housing in Walkable Neighborhoods, but also Compromised Quality

Memo to Members

Note: Compromised quality is the combination of poor quality school within ½ mile, home values below the area median, and high rate (40% or more) of African-American or Hispanic segregation.…

October 13, 2015

Fact of the Week: Increases in Supplemental Poverty Rates When Specific Assistance is Removed

Memo to Members

Source: Short, Kathleen (2015). The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2014. United States Census, U.S. Department of Commerce.

October 5, 2015

Fact of the Week: Percentage of U.S. Renter Households by Income Spending More than 30% of Income on Housing

Memo to Members

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates

September 28, 2015

Fact of the Week: Severely Cost Burdened Renter Households, Actual and Projected in 2025

Memo to Members

Source: Enterprise Community Partners and Join Center for Housing Studies (2015). Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1WeclwG

September 21, 2015

Fact of the Week: Poverty Rates by Age and Sex: 2014

Memo to Members

Source: DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor. (2015). Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau.

September 14, 2015

Fact of the Week: Wage Declines for the 10 Largest, Low Wage Occupations, 2009 to 2014

Memo to Members

Source: National Employment Law Project. (2015). Occupational Wage Declines Since the Great Recession: Low-Wage Occupations See Largest Real Wage Declines. Retrieved from http://bit…

September 8, 2015

Fact of the Week: Factors Associated with High Rates of Child Poverty in Rural Counties

Memo to Members

From Understanding the Geography of Growth in Rural Child Poverty is available at http://1.usa.gov/1K5pZ0W.

August 17, 2015

Fact of the Week: Percent of Poor Living in High-Poverty Neighborhoods on the Rise

Memo to Members

Note: A high-poverty neighborhood is defined as a census tract with a poverty rate of at least 40%. Source: Jargowsky, P. (2015). Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of…

August 10, 2015

Fact of the Week: Three in Five Adults Experience Poverty by Age 60

Memo to Members

Source: Rank, M. and Hirschl, T. (2015). The Likelihood of Experiencing Relative Poverty over the Life Course. PLOS ONE. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1TeY6d0

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Fact of The Week: New Mortgages over $500,000 by County (2012–2014)

Fact of The Week: Share of Voucher Households Feeling Safe at Night in their Neighborhood

Fact of the Week: TANF Benefits as Percentage of Monthly Income Needed to Afford 2-Bedroom Fair Market Rent

Fact of the Week: HUD-Assisted Housing in Walkable Neighborhoods, but also Compromised Quality

Fact of the Week: Increases in Supplemental Poverty Rates When Specific Assistance is Removed

Fact of the Week: Percentage of U.S. Renter Households by Income Spending More than 30% of Income on Housing

Fact of the Week: Severely Cost Burdened Renter Households, Actual and Projected in 2025

Fact of the Week: Poverty Rates by Age and Sex: 2014

Fact of the Week: Wage Declines for the 10 Largest, Low Wage Occupations, 2009 to 2014

Fact of the Week: Factors Associated with High Rates of Child Poverty in Rural Counties

Fact of the Week: Percent of Poor Living in High-Poverty Neighborhoods on the Rise

Fact of the Week: Three in Five Adults Experience Poverty by Age 60