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Rent Stressed Renters

Poverty Rate

*2014 Housing Needs Assessment of Louisiana | LSU Public Administration Institute

Louisiana

The Regional Housing Planning Area 7 (RHPA 7) is comprised of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and Webster Parishes.

RHPA 7 Shreveport

64% of Elderly households are low-income in

De Soto Parish

%57of Renters

in

Claiborne Parish are rent

stressed

of housing units in Caddo Parish

were built before 1980

73%

2 of 10 homeowners in

Natchitoches Parish are

rent stressed

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25¢

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25¢

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Rent stressed households are households expending more than 35% of their monthly income on gross rent. Severe rent stress, defined by households expending more than half of their monthly income on gross rent, leaving very little of their remaining income for health expenses, food, or savings.

$ Caddo and De Soto Parishes both have concentrations of extreme rent stressed households.

In Louisiana, a person earning the minimum wage working 40 hours a week without taking any unpaid leave (a total of 2,080 hours a year) would

earn slightly more than $15,000 annually.

RHPA 7

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