New Renter Cost Burden Data for Upcoming Oregon Senate and House Session.

Last year I did a post allowing the lookup of renter cost burden rates for all 30 Senate and 60 House districts and their members. This year I decided to simplify that data into a single PDF document. [Oregonians can lookup their districts/members by entering an address HERE). 

New ACS data came out in early December and I:

• Updated the renter cost burden data to 2017 (5 years, ACS table is B25070).  
• Updated the names of members for all districts, including the November election results.  

The resulting 3 page PDF file (House on first two pages, Senate on third) HERE, and embedded below, shows the:

• District number and member.
• Number and percent of renters with cost burdens (more than 30% of income for rent). 
• Number and percent of renter households with SEVERE cost burdens (more than 50% of income for rent).   
• Party of the member.  
• Cells highlighted in red indicate that the district/member had a HIGHER rate than the statewide rate. 

The data shows that statewide 297,000 renter households/52% pay more than 30% of their income for rent, and 152,000 renter households/27% pay more than 50% of their income for rent. 

[Note: To identify new members I had to manually check hard copy;  IF you notice any misspellings or wrong political party affiliation, please drop me a note at housepdx@gmail.com] 



Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.