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Map and income ladder for South Side Flats
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The table lists the same tracts as the map, with every value as text.
Income ladder: households here vs. the rent they can afford
Household size for the rent column
Median rent here: $1,594 a month
Income band (family of 3)Rent they can afford (bar) vs. the median rent here (line)Households here
Under 30% AMI$0–$30Kup to $745/moCan't afford the median rent here860640 cost-burdened
30–50% AMI$30K–$50Kup to $1,242/moCan't afford the median rent here360300 cost-burdened
50–80% AMI$50K–$80Kup to $1,987/mo490200 cost-burdened
80–100% AMI$80K–$99Kup to $2,483/mo13050 cost-burdened
Over 100% AMIover $99Kcan afford the median rent1,400
Household counts: HUD CHAS 2016-2020 (per HUD eGIS item metadata), all households (owners and renters), rounded. Rents: HUD FY2026 Income Limits, Pittsburgh HMFA; median rent: Census ACS 5-year 2020–2024.
About 5 in 10 renters in South Side Flats pay more than they can afford.
2 census tracts · Census ACS 5-year 2020–2024 · HUD CHAS 2016-2020 · HUD FY2026 income limits
Renters paying 30%+ of income
54% of renter households
Median household income
$70K, about 63% of the area median
Households under 50% of area median
1,220 households
Rental homes priced for them
about 370 at those rents
The gap
Roughly 850 more homes are needed for households here earning under half the area median, and 27% of renters already pay more than half their income on rent.
Context
✓Qualified Census Tract: tax-credit projects here can claim a 130% basis boost.
⌂12 tax-credit (LIHTC) properties in or within half a mile of South Side Flats, with at least 384 income-restricted homes (2 of them list no count), including Brew House Artist Housing (48 income-restricted homes, 2016), Carson Retirement Residence (69 homes, income-restricted count not listed), Carson Towers Apts (133 income-restricted homes, 2019). HUD LIHTC database, placed in service through 2019; newer projects are not in it.
%About 19% of people here live below the federal poverty line.
$A family of 3 at 60% of the area median earns up to about $59,640 a year; an affordable rent is about $1,491 a month including utilities.
Race and ethnicity are not used anywhere in this seat's calculations. Census income, rent and burden figures describe the area for context only and never feed a parcel's Ease Score.
