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Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in Pennsylvania
> Chapter 3: Housing Conditions of Pennsylvania’s Lower-Income
Renters in 2000 In 2000, nearly two-thirds of renter households
in Pennsylvania (64 percent) had incomes below 80 percent AMI
and were thus categorized as LI, VLI, or ELI. Notably, nearly
one-quarter of renter households in Pennsylvania were ELI (Table
7). When compared to the national averages, Pennsylvania had
slightly higher percentages of ELI, VLI, and LI renter
households out of total renter households in 2000. Among nearby
states, only West Virginia and New York had higher shares of ELI
renter households (28 percent and 26 percent, respectively,
compared to Pennsylvania’s 24 percent). Over 70 percent of ELI
renter households in Pennsylvania faced some type of housing
problem: either a cost burden or a housing unit problem,
including lacking complete plumbing or kitchen facilities or
overcrowding.31 Predictably, tho