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Worst Case Housing Needs 2007: A Report to Congress

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Worst Case Housing Needs 2007, released May 2010: The report is the twelfth in the series of worst case housing needs reports that have been issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since 1991. Worst case housing needs (WCN) are experienced by unassisted very low-income renters who either (1) pay more than one-half of their monthly income for rent; or (2) live in severely inadequate conditions, or both. HUD defines “very low-income” as below 50 percent of the local area median income (AMI) and “extremely low-income” as below 30 percent of AMI.”

  • “The number of households with worst case housing needs in 2007 was 5.91 million households, comprising 12.97 million individuals. This number was a slight (and statistically insignificant) decrease of 1.5 percent from the 5.99 million worst case needs in 2005…During 2007, almost one-half (46 percent) of households
    with children that experienced worst case needs were working full-time (with earned incomes at least at the minimum wage for 40 hours per week).”
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