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A steep roof over their heads

Housing is taking bigger bite of income

By Jenifer B. McKim

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 25, 2012

Nearly a quarter of working households in Massachusetts and across the US spend more than half their income on housing, according to a study released yesterday by the Washington, DC-based Center for Housing Policy. More than 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 center, which it based its analysis on recent Census data.

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