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May 19, 2020  


Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) Fact Sheet from HUD User

HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) offers a wealth of data on the HUD User Clearinghouse. PD&R is pleased to present a CHAS fact sheet, which summarizes and highlights statistics from the CHAS dataset.

Each year, HUD receives custom tabulations of American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, known as the CHAS data. These data demonstrate the extent of housing problems and housing needs, particularly for low-income households. CHAS data are used by local governments to plan how to spend HUD funds, and may also be used by HUD to distribute grant funds. HUD offers a simple web-based table generator (also known as a query tool) that provides some of the most commonly used CHAS figures. Visitors can also access the complete set of data files.

For more information, visit the CHAS data page. For information on other PD&R datasets, visit the HUD User Datasets page and view the Guide to HUD User Data Sets.



COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY (CHAS)

The Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data describe the extent of housing problems and housing needs in the United States.

The primary purpose of the CHAS data is to demonstrate the number of households in need of housing assistance. The CHAS data are used by local governments to plan how to spend HUD funds and may also be used by HUD to distribute grant funds.

The most recent CHAS data available are based on the 2012-2016 American Community Survey. The following snapshot of data was compiled using data on HUD User.

The data are available on the following geographic levels: Nation • State • County • Place • Consolidated Cities • Census Tract • Minor Civil Divisions

A household is said to have a housing problem if it has any one or more of these four problems: lacking complete kitchen facilities, lacking complete plumbing facilities, more than 1 person per room, or housing costs are more than 30 percent of income. In the United States and Puerto Rico, roughly 1 in 2 (49.1%) renter occupied units has one or more of the four housing problems. Roughly 1 in 4 (25%) of owner occupied units has one or more of the housing problems.

HUD Area Median Family Income (HAMFI) is the median family income calculated by HUD for each jurisdiction to determine Income Limits for HUD programs. The income distribution of households for homeowners and renters is described below.

Infographic with two donut charts. The first donut chart shows the distribution of owner occupied households by household income, and the second donut chart shows the distribution of renter occupied households by household income.

This dataset can be accessed through Microsoft Excel files or the web-based query tool available on HUD User at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/cp.html.

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