One in two renting families in a five-county area that includes Sarasota and Manatee counties is now considered “rent-burdened” – or paying more than 30% of their monthly income in rent, according to new data by United Way Suncoast.
The statistic is one of the numerous aspects of the current housing crisis that United Way Suncoast is tracking – data made available to the public through its new State of the Housing Crisis dashboard, which can be accessed at unitedwaysuncoast.org/eviction-mitigation.
The dashboard, which took the United Way Suncoast Data Team six weeks to create, will carry updates from a variety of sources to examine rising rental rates, eviction filings and available emergency rental assistance funds.
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