Affordable Housing Needs: A Report to Congress
on the Significant Need for Housing (December 2005, 103
p)
In 1990, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee directed
HUD to "resume the annual compilation of a worst case
housing needs survey of the United States ... [to estimate]
the number of families and individuals whose incomes fall
50 percent below an area's median income, who either pay 50
percent or more of their monthly income for rent, or who live
in substandard housing."
Households with "worst case needs" are defined
as unassisted renters with very low incomes (below 50 percent
of area median income - AMI) who pay more than half of their
income for housing or live in severely substandard housing.
This report is the ninth in a series of Worst Case Needs
reports to Congress. The report is organized into four basic
sections. Chapter 1 provides an introduction, including a
discussion of terms and sources. Chapter 2 outlines the findings
of worst case needs by various categories such as demographics
and geography. Chapter 3 presents a new analysis using data
from the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation
to compare estimates of severe rent burden and examine the
duration of those rent burdens. Chapter 4 assesses the supply
of affordable rental housing.
In addition to examining the experiences of renters, their
incomes and the amounts they pay in rent, this report also
looks at the availability of affordable rental housing and
how these supply issues may affect worst case needs.
The 2003 Worst Case Needs Tables are available here. This archive contains the appendix tables of
the report in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format. PD&R provides these
tables as a convenience to analysts who wish to use the tabulations in
their own work.
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