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Affordable Housing, Rental Assistance, and Population Health
The US is facing a growing and severe affordable housing crisis. Rents have outstripped wages, and in the vast majority of the country, full-time minimum wage work is insufficient to affordably rent a two-bedroom market-rate apartment. Today, half of low-income households spend more than 50% of their income on housing. This crisis has contributed to poor housing conditions, housing instability, and eviction among low-income households. The shortage of affordable housing is not only a housing problem, it is also a population health problem, given the well-established relationship between housing conditions and health outcomes.
Source: Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health