Houston’s housing authority, Housing Alliance HTX, opened its public housing waitlists for the first time since 2023 this summer. Within two weeks, roughly 56,000 households had applied, it said in a release.
The waitlists are now closed. The volume of applications underscores Houston’s dire shortage of housing affordable to its extremely low-income residents. Houstonians who earn either below 30% of the area’s median income or the poverty level, or approximately $22,750 for a two-person household, face one of the worst housing shortages in the country, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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