Source: NLIHC Memo to Members, May 28, 2010

“HUD issued its twelfth “Worst Case Housing Needs” in the last week of May. The report states that there were 5.91 million households, comprising 12.97 million people, with worst case housing needs in 2007, based on analysis of American Housing Survey data. The definition of worst case is a very low income renter household that did not receive housing assistance, and that paid more than half of its income for housing, lived in severely inadequate housing, or both. HUD is required by statute to report to Congress on “worst case housing needs” every two years. [More ...]