'rent burden' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used when referring to the financial burden of paying rent. For example, "As a student, the rent burden is often too much to handle alone."
And they also look at severe rent burden, so if you're spending 50% or more of your income, that's technically severe rent burden.
And Latino renters also have a really high rate of rent burden, 57.6%.
And while Asian Americans have a lower rate of overall rent burden, 49%, so slightly lower than white renters, their rate of severe rent burden is actually pretty high.
"Heavy Is the House: Rent Burden among the American Urban Poor". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
And another thing to note is that the census measures both moderate rent burden, which would be 30-49/5030-49/50% income.
Since 2008, rent burden has also become far more common among middle-class households, the combined result of stagnant incomes and declining rental vacancy.
So among black renters, 64.1% are rent burdened.
At the same time, that group has one of the lowest percentages, 22 percent, of households with extraordinary rent burdens.
About 70percentt of the Independence Plaza North tenants qualify as rent burdened, or eligible for rental assistance programs to support them in paying any increased rent, he said.
As for the remaining tenants, he said, "I do not have a plan for future rents for people who are not rent burdened".
She has also been working to agitate for a state law that would reduce rent burdens of poor people with AIDS.
