The Boston Globe (2/25, McKim, 228K) reported, "Nearly a quarter of working households in Massachusetts and across the United States spend more than half their income on housing, according to a study released...by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Housing Policy." The data revealed that over "231,000 Massachusetts households, or 24 percent of working families, suffered from a 'severe housing cost burden' of spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing in 2010, up from 22 percent in 2009, according to the center." In the US as a whole, "the percentage of working households that spent more than half their income on housing grew to 23.6 percent in 2010, up from 22.8 percent in 2009, the study said."
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