{"id":115437,"date":"2026-01-08T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115437\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:23:08","slug":"rent-affordability-plagues-low-income-county-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115437\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent affordability plagues low-income county residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real estate research shows Collin County has the state\u2019s highest share of low-income households spending more than one-third of their income on rent.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is experiencing a significant decline in rental affordability, worsening faster than the national average, and Collin County led the state with the highest share of low-income households spending more than one-third of their income on rent.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to research economist Jorge Barro with the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>In a Dec. 10 presentation to a rental affordability market outlook conference in Austin, Barro said rental affordability threatened the economic viability and opportunities for Texas residents, particularly for those households earning less than $35,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>For low-income families in Collin County, the rent burden was 95.0%, he said. Checking data available for 39 Texas counties, the mean (average) rent burden was 84.8% with the median (middle) rent burden at 85.7%.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, see the January 8, 2026 print or digital edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher.etype.services\/Farmersville-Times\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Farmersville Times. Subscribe<\/a> today and support local journalism in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real estate research shows Collin County has the state\u2019s highest share of low-income households spending more than one-third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-115437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}