Description:
Percent of households paying more than half of household income in housing costs.
Source:
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, The State of the Nation’s Housing.
Methodological Notes:
Households with zero or negative income are assumed to have severe burdens, while renters paying no cash rent are assumed to have no burden.
A household includes all the people who occupy a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live separately from any other people in the building and which have direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall.