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Twin Cities Metro <br />11, ririig & Assls�ta�ince, 11POlicy Media <br />Pul'.)lIlcafions Reports & Research Housing Trends Twin Cifies Metro <br />Housing Affordability Trends <br />�by Region <br />• Duluth <br />• Rochester <br />• Twin Cities Metro <br />• St. Cloud <br />Reports, & Research <br />• Facts& Stats <br />• M Reports <br />• M Research Archive <br />• Research (Links <br />Trends in Ih ousing, jlobs, and more over <br />the long-term, based on research, by MHP <br />and other Minnesota non-profits. <br />It Kinnes.,,oux D-ata,TreiAs <br />01me, v,," Nvrrr'vhfr-,'�, <br />Twin Cities Metro <br />Attachment I <br />104 1�1 <br />Twin Cities, area res,iidents face high housing costs,, both for owners, and renters, compared to incomes. The <br />problem has worsened in recent years. By 2009, over 14% of all area households, or one iin seven, paid more <br />than half of their income for housing. At this level of housing cost burden, famiiliies, often must make difficult <br />choices between paying for hous,iing and other necessities, such as transportation, food, and prescriptiioin <br />medicines. <br />40,00,01 <br />Number of Households Paying at Least Half of <br />InCro�Mie for Housing, Twin Cities Metro <br />21,0015 2006 2007 2,008 2OD9 <br />Sourcc— Am�--ricanCominui,oilofy5u,r�,ey, I-year esfrh-y�fes, <br />Reniers <br />m Own e,rs <br />2005 2006 20,07 2005 2009 <br />Sourc,--- Arr),eh'Can Co,rrmun)"fySurvey, 1-year esfii,mafes <br />About 93,000 owner households and 83,000 renter households, now pay more than half of their iincome for <br />housing in the Metro area. 16% more owners, and 10% more renters, experiienced this level of housing cost <br />burden in 2009 compared to 2005, though the increase since 2000 has been even more dramatic. The burden <br />falls especially heaviily on lower-income area res,iidents. About two-thirds of households earning less, than <br />$50,000 per year pay more than they can comfortably afford for housiing, according to HUD guiideliines,, <br />compared to about 1 iin 6 households, with iincomes , above $50,000. <br />http. / /www. mhp online. org/pub lications/rep orts- and-res earch/housing-trends/8 5 -twin- citie... 09/14/2011 <br />