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Most Assisted Households Are Older Adults, Persons with Disabilities, or Families with Children Share of Assisted Households Adults with Disabilities III% Adults with Disa bilines with Cluddrer Va Adults without Children 12% Adults with Children 32% )lour Adults 13% Older Adults with Children 1% Notes. Household counts include those assisted by housing choice vouchers, public housing, incisor based Section 8, Source 202, and Section 811 Older adult households ere heeded by a person age 62 or older, Including therewith a dlsablllty ora car with a disability. Adults with disabilities are heuaeholds heeded by a person age 61 or younger with a disability or a spouse with a disability Adults with children Include households with It lesstone child under age 16 present. Source'. JIM tabulations of US Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2018 Public Use Microdata Sample, housing, these units generally have rents affordable to households with incomes 50-60 percent of the area median. To be affordable to extremely low-income households, LLHTC units often must be coupled with other subsidies. Indeed, a 2014 HUD analysis estimated that 38 percent or more of LIHTC tenants received rental assistance of some kind from federal, state, or local sources. Households receiving rental assistance are predominantly families with children, older adults, and persons with disabilities (Figure 33). According to HUD data for 2016, 38 percent of recipients were low- income families with children, including 5 percent with a household head with a disability and 1 percent with a household head age 62 or over. With the aging of the baby -boom generation, older adults now occupy one-third of assisted units and this share is and set to increase over the coming decades. Meanwhile, 18 percent of assisted house- holds in 2016 were headed by a person under age 62 with a disability. Only 12 percent of recipients were childless adults under age 62. PRESERVING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK The nation's stock of both assisted and privately owned low-cost rentals includes many units at risk of loss. Public housing, in par- ticular, has a large backlog of needed repairs and improvements, last estimated at $26 billion in 2010, and its annual maintenance needs of $3.4 billion exceed Congressional appropriations. Although Congress has not addressed this deficit through additional capital funding, it did establish the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) in 2012 to give public housing and other eligible properties more Affordability Restrictions on 1.1 Million Rental Units Will Expire by 2027 Cumulative Number of Units with Expiring Affordability (Millions) 1.25 1.00 0.75 0.50 025 000 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Typeuf Subsidy ®Project -Based Asmstance til Low Income Housing Tax Cr edit NOther Notes, Data Include proportion with active subsidies as of January t, 2017. Other includes units funded by I TOMS Rental Assistance FHA Insurance, Section 236 Insurance, Section 202 Direct loans, USDA Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Loans, and units In properties with more than one sueadytype aspiring on the came daµ For proportion with multiple subsidies, If one subsidy expires hotone or nom othem mmein eetive, the difference between the number of units assisted by the expiring subsidy and the number of units assisted by the manaidong subsidies are counted an expired, Somme JCI IS chulogreas of Pubic and Affordable Housing Research Conference and National Low Income housing Confirm, Nmiennl Housing Preservation Dabacase. '.33.