Estimates of Need
Raising the Roof
(HCD, 2000; from 1995
AHS)
§Currently
about 2.4 million California households need some form of housing assistance (are low-income and
are over-paying).
§If that
percentage stays constant at 22%, the number of households needing housing assistance could rise
to 3.7 million by
2020.
Still Locked
Out (California
Budget Project, March 2001, from 1999 AHS)
§Statewide,
2.3 low-income renter households per affordable unit, or a shortage of 581,000
units.
§About half of
California renters pay more than 30% of their income for rent
§90% of low-income renters
“overpay” for
rent
§79% of low-income
home-owners overpay.