This fact sheet was created in partnership with Filipino Advocates for Justice and RISE to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in Union City, but 51 percent of them pay too much for housing.
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: people of color face the steepest rent burdens.
• Renters have experienced a 15 percent increase in median rent and a 69 percent increase in households that are rent burdened since 2000.

Find Filipino Advocates for Justice renters' rights campaign updates here.

This fact sheet was created in partnership with Fremont RISE to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in Fremont, but 41 percent of them pay too much for housing. 
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: Black renters face the steepest rent burdens.
• Renters have experienced a 12 percent increase in median rent and a 29 percent increase in households that are rent burdened since 2000. 

Find Fremont RISE renters' rights campaign updates here. 

This fact sheet was created in partnership with The Hayward Collective to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in Hayward, but 57 percent of them pay too much for housing.
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: people of color face the steepest rent burdens.
• Renters have experienced a 10 increase in median rent and a 29 percent increase in households that are rent burdened since 2000.

Find the Hayward Collective renters' rights campaign updates here.

On March 5, the Hayward City Council voted unanimously to extend the city’s just cause protections, which applied only to renters living in buildings constructed prior to 1979, to all tenants.

This fact sheet was created in partnership with Working Partnerships USA to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in San José, but 53 percent of them pay too much for housing.
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: women of color face the steepest rent burdens.
• If San José renters were not rent-burdened, they would have an additional $8,500 per household to spend on other household needs and in the local economy.
• There is not a single neighborhood in San José where market rents are affordable to a family of two minimum-wage earners.

Find Working Partnerhips USA's renters' rights campaign updates here.

This map of median market rent by census tract and annual household incomes was produced for the Raise the Roof coalition, which is working to ensure that everyone has a home as well as a sense of safety and belonging in the city of Concord. It shows the disconnect between high market rents and the incomes of Concord renters. We found that the majority of Concord renters have annual household incomes below $50,000, yet there are no neighborhoods in the city with median market rents affordable to families with that income. The majority of Concord neighborhoods are affordable only to families with incomes above $75,000, which account for just one in four of the city's renter households.

Renters now represent the majority in the nation’s 100 largest cities, and contribute billions to local economies. Yet renters face a toxic mix of rising rents and stagnant wages, both of which add up to an unprecedented affordability crisis that stymies their ability to contribute to the broader economy and thrive. This analysis, produced in support of the Renter Week of Action occurring September 16-24, reveals what renters and the nation stand to gain from addressing this crisis. We find that nationwide, if renters paid only what was affordable for housing, they would have $124 billion extra to spend in the community every year, or $6,200 per rent-burdened household. Download the national fact sheet and press release.

You can also download fact sheets for the following cities: Alameda, Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Bowling Green (KY), Brooklyn, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Durham, El Paso, Jackson, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Lynn (MA), Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, Newark, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Reno, Rochester, San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Seattle, Spokane, Springfield (MA), St. Paul, Washington DC.