{"id":304650,"date":"2026-10-11T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304650\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:22:40","slug":"how-much-do-households-in-allentown-pa-area-spend-on-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304650\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do households in Allentown, PA area spend on rent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Housing and Urban Development considers households with a rent-to-income ratio of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huduser.gov\/portal\/datasets\/cp\/CHAS\/bg_chas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">more than 30%<\/a>, that is, households that spend more than 30% their income on housing, to be cost-burdened. Cost-burdened households may have less money for other necessities such as food, healthcare, or savings. When median monthly rent is more than 30% of median monthly income, it means a typical household would meet the definition of <a href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/answers\/how-many-households-in-the-united-states-spend-too-much-on-housing\/country\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">housing cost-burdened<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Housing and Urban Development considers households with a rent-to-income ratio of more than 30%, that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-304650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}