Opinion: Paying the rent is getting tougher
By Foon Rhee, Sacramento Bee
Since the year 2000, rents have risen and so has the number of people needing affordable housing.
That double whammy means that even while building more housing, many places are failing to keep pace, according to a new study by the Urban Institute.
In its color-coded map, there’s only a smattering of counties across America with enough affordable housing for the extremely poor. In the U.S. as a whole, there were 47 affordable units available for every 100 extremely low-income families in 2000.