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[News] Affordable to Whom: The Rule That Prices America's Poorest Renters Out of "Affordable" Housing
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The country's main affordable housing program sets rent as a share of an area's median income rather than of what a tenant actually earns, and that single rule explains why nominally affordable apartments sit empty while the poorest renters cannot get in.
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