Off the Charts - The number of low-income households paying more than half of their
income for rent or living in severely substandard housing remains 30
percent above pre-recession levels despite the improving economy, a new
Department of Housing and Urban Development report shows. In 2013, 7.7 million households had “worst-case housing needs” (HUD’s
measure of the most serious housing problems), the report shows — up
from 5.9 million in 2007. Most of them include a child, elderly
individual, or person with disabilities. These data don’t include many
of the more than 1 million households that were in shelters or on the streets in 2013.
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