More than half of low-income Black and Hispanic families who rent struggle with severe housing insecurity: Share of low-income families who spend more than 50% of their income on rent, 2007–2023
| Year | Black | Hispanic | White | Black | Hispanic | White |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 51.1% | 42.6% | 41.1% | |||
| 2008 | 51.3% | 44.3% | 41.7% | |||
| 2009 | 53.7% | 45.7% | 43.5% | |||
| 2010 | 54.4% | 46.2% | 46.2% | |||
| 2011 | 54.4% | 46.9% | 46.3% | |||
| 2012 | 53.6% | 46.0% | 44.2% | |||
| 2013 | 52.7% | 44.6% | 44.0% | |||
| 2014 | 52.5% | 46.0% | 44.4% | |||
| 2015 | 51.1% | 45.1% | 42.6% | |||
| 2016 | 49.7% | 45.2% | 41.9% | |||
| 2017 | 50.2% | 45.7% | 41.8% | |||
| 2018 | 49.4% | 45.8% | 41.5% | |||
| 2019 | 48.3% | 44.9% | 40.3% | |||
| 2020 | ||||||
| 2021 | 55.4% | 50.8% | 46.4% | |||
| 2022 | 56.1% | 50.7% | 47.2% | |||
| 2023 | 57.0% | 52.1% | 47.4% |
Note: Shaded areas denote recessions. Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive (i.e., white alone non-Hispanic, Black alone or in any combination non-Hispanic, Hispanic any race). Data for 2020 are omitted due to data quality issues.
Source: EPI analysis of 2007–2023 American Community Survey 1-Year microdata via IPUMS.