The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes.

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