#FastFacts: Affordable Housing Needs
While the nation’s economy is recovering, millions of low income American families are still struggling to find stable, adequate affordable housing. More than half of households earning less than $30,000 a year spend half their income on rent. This leaves little for necessities such as healthy food, medical care, school fees, transportation or savings. Here are five share-able tweets that illustrate the shocking need to increase America’s stock of affordable housing:
Want more information? To learn more about America’s housing crisis and why affordable housing matters read:
Marcrthur Foundation’s How Housing Matters reports
The National low Income Housing Coalition’s Out of Reach report
The Urban Institute’s Housing Assistance Matters Initiative