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Rent is eating up a greater share of tenants’ income in almost every state (www.tucsonsentinel.com)

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  There were 21 states - including Arizona - where a majority of tenant households spent 30% or more of their incomes on rent and utilities last year, compared with just seven states in 2019.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly higher than I thought and not in the states I was expecting

Arizona (to 54% from 46.5%), Nevada (to 57.4% from 51.1%) and Georgia (to 53.7% from 48.4%)

… Las Vegas area had the highest percentage of cost-burdened renters in the state, at 58.3%, more even than the New York City metro area (52.6%) or San Francisco metro area (48.9%).

the states with the highest jumps in the share of cost-burdened renters were Florida, which increased to 61.7% from 55.9%, and Maine, at 49.1% from 44%.

That jump left Florida as the state with the highest rate of cost-burdened renters. It was followed by Nevada (57.4%), Hawaii (56.7%), Louisiana (56.2%) and California (56.1%).