The Crisis
OECD evidence shows that low-income tenants are often the most overburdened households in high-income countries.
One in three low-income OECD tenant households spend more than 40% of disposable income on rent. In some countries the share is more than half. That is a tenant crisis inside a wider housing crisis.
Ownership rates and price-to-income indices do not capture this. A household can be housed, employed, and still rent-overburdened. OECD identifies the United States among countries where more than half of low-income tenant households cross the 40% threshold.
This dossier will add national rent series as they are verified. It will not substitute listing-site asking rents for official overburden statistics.
Each figure carries a geography, period, and named source. None of these is a global median home price.
Low-income OECD tenants overburdened
1 in 3
share of low-income tenant households
OECD: on average, one in three low-income tenant households spend over 40% of disposable income on rent. Overburden is higher than half in some countries, including the United States.
Low-income renter overburden
More than half
of low-income tenant households
OECD identifies the United States among countries where more than half of low-income tenant households spend over 40% of disposable income on rent.
