| Exhibit 1: | Changes in the 1997 American Housing Survey Affecting Estimates of Worst Case Needs |
| Exhibit 2: | Income Categories Used in Housing Programs |
| Exhibit 3: | Extremely Low, Very Low, and Low Income: Examples for Nine
Metropolitan Areas of HUD's 1999 Section 8 Income Limits for
Four-Person Households
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| Exhibit 4: | Housing Assistance and Affordable Housing Programs |
| Exhibit 5: | Income Targeting for Federal Housing Assistance: Recent Changes |
| Exhibit 6: | Household-Level Data From HUD Programs |
| Exhibit 7: | Severe Rent Burdens Are by Far the Most Common Problem Among Families with Worst Case Needs |
| Exhibit 8: | Between 1991 and 1997, Worst Case Needs Rose from 4.8 Million to a Record High of 5.4 Million Households
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| Exhibit 9: | The Number With Worst Case Needs Rose Because More Families Paid More than Half of Their Income for Rent
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| Exhibit 10: | Between 1991 and 1997, Growth in Worst Case Needs Was Highest Among Working Families with Children
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| Exhibit 11: | Increasing Numbers of Extremely-Low-Income Families with Children Are Working
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| Exhibit 12: | More Than 2 Million Unassisted Working Renters with Worst Case Needs Have Extremely Low Incomes
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| Exhibit 13: | The Supply of Rental Units Affordable to Extremely-Low-Income Families Continues to Shrink
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| Exhibit 14: | The Mismatch Between Extremely-Low-Income Renters and Units Both Affordable and Available to Them Is Worse and Widening Even Faster
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| Exhibit 15: | Rental Units Affordable to Very-Low-Income Families Grew Again to Offset Some of Earlier Loss
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| Exhibit 16: | Priority Problems Became More Concentrated Among Extremely-Low-Income Renters During the 1990s
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| Exhibit 17: | Renters with Income Below 30 Percent of Median, Especially Those with Income Below 20 Percent of Median, Are the Only Income Groups Likely to Have Severe Housing Problems
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| Exhibit 18: | Rental Housing Assistance Programs Are Well Targeted to the Extremely-Low-Income Groups Most Likely to Have Priority Problems
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| Exhibit 19: | Many Assisted Families Have Earnings as Their Primary Source
of Income
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| Exhibit 20: | Growth in Worst Case Needs During the 1990s was Highest Among Hispanics and Blacks |
| Exhibit 21: | Very-Low-Income Renters Are Most Likely to Have Worst Case Problems in the Suburbs and Least Likely to Receive Assistance There
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| Exhibit 22: | Losses in Units Affordable to Extremely-Low-Income Renters Were Greatest in the Suburbs, Both Absolutely and Relatively |
| Exhibit 23: | Growth in Worst Case Needs Was Below Average for Household Types More Likely to Be Assisted |
| Exhibit 24: | During the 1990s, Worst Case Needs Were Most Likely in the West, But They Grew Most Quickly in the Northeast
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| Exhibit 25: | Mismatches Between Extremely-Low-Income Renters and Available
Rental Units They Can Afford Are Greatest in the West, But
Worsening Everywhere
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| Exhibit 26: | For Families Who Need to Move, Using Tenant-Based Assistance Became Easier in Each Region Between 1991 and 1997
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| Exhibit 27: | Between 1995 and 1997, There Was an Alarming Rise in the Number of Very-Low-Income Renters Paying More Than Half of Their Income for Rent |
| Exhibit 28: | New Units of Federal Rental Assistance Have Been Minimal in
Recent Years
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