Housing & Affordability

What it costs to keep a roof over your head, who can't, and where that failure shows up as homelessness — for every U.S. state. Rents and home values, the share of renters who are cost-burdened (paying 30%+ of income on rent), vacancy, and the annual homeless count. Pick a state on the map or search below.

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Click a state on the map for its rents, home values, cost burden, and homelessness — and how it compares with the rest of the country.

The cost of homelessness — and whether housing costs less

A transparent model, not a measurement. Homelessness isn't just a housing problem — its cost lands on public safety, healthcare, and social services. This multiplies the nation's real chronically-homeless count (HUD) by published per-person cost estimates, and asks the question Finland answered: does housing people cost less than managing the crisis across all those systems?

Over time — rents, values, and homelessness

Housing conditions from the Census (ACS 5-year, 2022–2024) and homelessness from HUD's annual Point-in-Time count (2007–2024). Affordability and homelessness move together: when rents outrun incomes, homelessness follows.

Housing capital — allocated vs. spent

State capital appropriations tagged to housing — what's been committed versus actually spent. Unspent housing dollars are the most direct lever we have.

Rents, home values, cost burden, vacancy, and renter share come from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2022–2024), by state (and, where shown, county and tract). ACS figures are survey estimates with margins of error; small geographies are less precise. Rent burden is the share of renter households paying 30% or more of income on gross rent. Homelessness is HUD's Point-in-Time (PIT) count, 2007–2024 — a one-night January census, a known undercount; the trend is more reliable than any single number. Capital is NM state capital-outlay appropriations tagged to housing (caps.nm.gov); NM-only until data agreements extend it. This page describes conditions so support can go where it helps; it never ranks whose community matters more, and it is not personalized financial advice. How this data may & may not be used →