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July 17, 2017

Fact of The Week: House Appropriations Committee Proposes Significant USDA Rural Housing Budget Cuts for FY18

Memo to Members

July 10, 2017

Fact of The Week: Range of Factors Affect Homeownership Gap between Whites and Hispanics

Memo to Members

Source: Freddie Mac. (2017). Will the Hispanic Homeownership Gap Persist? Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2uiW5lq

July 3, 2017

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Severely Rent-Burdened Households Have Greatest Food Insecurity

Memo to Members

June 26, 2017

Fact of The Week: High-Cost Rental Units Increase, Low-Cost Rental Units Decline over Last 10 Years

Memo to Members

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). The State of the Nation’s Housing. Cambridge, MA: Author. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1kKwpkW 

June 19, 2017

Fact of the Week: Rents Are Out of Reach for Many

Memo to Members

Source: NLIHC calculation of a national weighted-average Fair Market Rent; NLIHC calculation of affordable rent for average renter wage based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) QCEW, 2015 adjusted…

June 12, 2017

Fact of The Week: Six of the Seven Occupations with Highest Projected Growth Fail to Provide a Housing Wage

Memo to Members

Source: NLIHC calculation of Housing Wage; Employment Projections Program, BLS; May 2016 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Occupational Employment Statistics, BLS; adjusted to…

June 5, 2017

Fact of The Week: Low and Median Wages Barely Increased Since 1973, While Those at the Top Saw Sizeable Gains

Memo to Members

Note: Wages in 2016 dollars. Source: Economic Policy Institute’s State of Working America Data Library

May 30, 2017

Fact of The Week: Why Renters Move

Memo to Members

Source: Federal Reserve Board. (2017). Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2016. Washington, DC: Author.

May 22, 2017

Fact of The Week: Rents Outpace Wages and Income, 2007-2015

Memo to Members

Source: 1-yr American Community Survey, Economic Policy Institute (2016), dollars adjusted for inflation.

May 8, 2017

Fact of The Week: Most HUD Programs Experienced Major Funding Reductions from FY10 to FY17

Memo to Members

Note: Adjusted for inflation.  Source: NLIHC

April 24, 2017

Fact of The Week: Lowest Income Households Most Likely to Live in Physically Inadequate Housing

Memo to Members

Source: 2015 American Housing Survey

April 17, 2017

Fact of The Week: How Minimum Wage Increases Would Reduce Housing Cost Burdens in Illinois

Memo to Members

Source: Nolan, L., Dickson, A., Bruno, R., and Smith, J.(2017).  The impact of a minimum wage increase on housing affordability in Illinois.  University of Illinois Labor Education…

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