hSum Report

NEW: 2008 hSum Report
Released: December 2009

HousingLink is pleased to announce the release of 2008 hSum: a yearly report providing comprehensive, up-to-date counts of both tenant- and unit-based rental assistance, summarized by geography. This year’s report introduces the affordable housing “Opportunity Gap,” or, the difference between total rental assistance opportunities and total households earning less than $25,000 a year. There were 82,176 publicly-assisted rental opportunities in the Twin Cities seven-county metro area in 2008, with a quarter of those opportunities coming in the form of tenant-based vouchers. There were nearly 179,500 households earning less than $25,000 a year, resulting in a “gap” of 54%.

HousingLink intends to track the Opportunity Gap in future hSum reports. hSum is a joint project of the Interagency Stabilization Group (a multi-jurisdiction group of affordable housing funders) and HousingLink.

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2007 hSum Report


For questions about HousingLink's hSum Report, please contact our Research Manager, Dan Hylton at 612.520.9222.