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Poverty Rate
*2014 Housing Needs Assessment of Louisiana | LSU Public Administration Institute
Louisiana
The Regional Housing Planning Area 7 (RHPA 7) is comprised of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and Webster Parishes.
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64% of Elderly households are low-income in
De Soto Parish
%57of Renters
in
Claiborne Parish are rent
stressed
of housing units in Caddo Parish
were built before 1980
73%
2 of 10 homeowners in
Natchitoches Parish are
rent stressed
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Rent stressed households are households expending more than 35% of their monthly income on gross rent. Severe rent stress, defined by households expending more than half of their monthly income on gross rent, leaving very little of their remaining income for health expenses, food, or savings.
$ Caddo and De Soto Parishes both have concentrations of extreme rent stressed households.
In Louisiana, a person earning the minimum wage working 40 hours a week without taking any unpaid leave (a total of 2,080 hours a year) would
earn slightly more than $15,000 annually.
RHPA 7
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