• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Well, not quite

    22.4 million households who, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, pay more than a third of their income in rent.

    Paying anything above the standard 30% threshold is commonly considered a cost burden.

    What’s more, 12 million of those renters are severely cost burdened, which means they are spending more than half their income on housing.

    We are still below 100% for now, for most people, but it will get worse