RENT BURDEN, SOUTH BRONX

Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation

WHEDco_HSC Portraits of NYC_Rent Burden Study

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In this report, the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco) examines the impact of rent burden on low-income Bronx communities. This portrait will be used as an educational tool to inform conversations about housing cost burden with elected officials, community members, staff, and other partners.

The Human Service Council's primary goal is to strengthen the nonprofit human services industry's ability to deliver services that improve the physical, emotional, and economic health and well-being of individuals in New York City.

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The Helmsley Charitable Trust aspires to improve lives by supporting exceptional efforts in the U.S. and around the world in health and select place-based initiatives.

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Measure of America of the Social Science Research Council works with partners to breathe life into numbers, providing easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America's communities.

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The Social Science Research Council is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.

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