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  • 1.  ACS Table for Severe Housing Burden

    Posted 03-08-2019 03:46 PM

    There are a variety of tables similar to "PERCENT OF RENTER-OCCUPIED UNITS SPENDING 30 PERCENT OR MORE OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME ON RENT AND UTILITIES", but is anyone aware of a table to includes spending of 50 percent or more of household income in rent?

    This report on homelessness directs readers to the 2016 ACS 1-Year Estimates, but I can not locate a table that displays 50 percent or more on rent.



  • 2.  RE: ACS Table for Severe Housing Burden

    Posted 03-08-2019 04:52 PM
    Check out Table B25070 Gross rent as a percentage of household income. factfinder.census.gov/.../B25070


  • 3.  RE: ACS Table for Severe Housing Burden

    Posted 03-11-2019 08:18 AM
    Thank you. Is there a table for this by poverty level?


  • 4.  RE: ACS Table for Severe Housing Burden

    Posted 03-13-2019 05:15 PM
    There is another data set you might want to look at to supplement the ACS table. This is the Consolidated Planning data set, with is a recompilation of ACS data done for HUD. There are a number of tables that report whether households spend more than 30% and 50% of income on housing costs. Renters vs owners is one of the primary distinctions made in the data. While poverty level is not used as a parameter, percentage of area median income (which differs from ACS median household income) is used. Table 11 reports rent burden for households earning less than 20% of AMI, which gets close to poverty level in my region (Boston) and might even be below in yours.

    www.huduser.gov/.../cp.html