Affordable Rental Housing in Rural Texas

Affordability Challenges for Rural Renters in Texas

While housing-cost-burden rates for renters in rural Texas are favorable relative to the nation, the sheer size of the state means it still had the second-highest number of such renters of any state (112,441 in 2017), behind only North Carolina. More than 60 percent of those cost-burdened households are renter households with income of less than $20,000 a year.

Households with annual income of less than $20,000 represent the precise target population and current resident makeup of the USDA RD Section 515 program, discussed in detail in the next section.