“Worst case housing” can be described as the following: Any household that spends 50 percent or more of their monthly income on rent and/or lives in severely substandard conditions. There is now estimated to be 7.1 million low-income “worst case housing” scenarios in the US. There was a 20 percent rise from 2007 to 2009, the largest rise in any two year span since 1985. Unemployment has contributed 410,000 households in 2009 to the situation in alliance with rising rent due to the increase in demand for rentals because of the housing crisis.
Hispanics and families with children have suffered the most from “worst case housing.” Hispanics make up 45 percent and families with hildren make up 39 percent of the low income, worst case scenarios. These numbers do not even include the 550,000 households in 2007 that were not considered to be in the “direst housing needs.”
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