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The High Cost of Housing in Delaware

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A new study fonds that of the nearly 95-thousand households that rent in the state of Delaware 28% are spending more than 50% of their income for housing.

That’s the conclusion of a new report by the Delaware Housing Coalition today.

The group also looked at the homeless.

The Coalition found that there are around 1-thousand Delawareans who are identified as homeless on any given night and 6-thousand state residents that experience homelessness during the year.

Meanwhile, the median purchase price for a house in the First State ranges from nearly $185-thousand in Kent County to nearly $239-thousand in Sussex County

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.