Nearly 16.5 million renter households have at least one worker in an industry likely to be immediately affected by efforts to flatten the curve in the COVID-19 pandemic, estimates researchers at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California at Berkeley.
That means nearly 50 million people live in a renter household likely experiencing immediate job or income losses.
These renters are also more likely to be people of color: while Latinx and Black residents make up 18% and 12% of the U.S. population, they account for 28% and 18% of the impacted renter population, respectively.
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