On March 13th, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) issued The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, an updated estimate of the gap between the number of extremely low-income (ELI) renter households and the number of rental units available and affordable to them. NLIHC estimates a shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes. In Massachusetts, the report estimates that there are over 299,000 ELI rental households, with 60% of those households paying more than half of their income towards rent. The report also estimates that there are only 46 affordable and available units per 100 ELI households.
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