Every U.S. County Has an Affordable Housing Crisis [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/1/174:00 AM

The affordable housing crisis has spared no county—rural or urban. From small towns like Traverse City, Michigan, to big expensive cities like San Francisco, a cheap and decent place to live is hard to come by. And it would be even harder without government support, according to a new report by the Urban Institute.

Nationwide, only 21 units are available per 100 extremely low-income renter households (those earning below 30 percent of the area median income) without government assistance. With assistance, it’s 46.

[For more of this story, written by Tanvi Misra, go to https://www.citylab.com/housin...using-crisis/524628/]

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