A record number of renters are spending more than half their income on housing, according to a report released Tuesday by the Harvard Joint Center for housing Studies.

根据哈佛大学联合住房研究中心周二(2011年4月26日)发布的一份报告称，租房费用占收入的一半的租房人数已创新纪录。

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The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University reports that real median household incomes across all age groups under 55 have not increased since 2000.

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The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard said in its 2011 report that the recession increased the pool of low-income renters at the same time competition for cheaper affordable housing units became more fierce.

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Between 2001 and 2006, the number of homeowners paying more than half their income on housing rose to 8.8 million, from 6.5 million, the largest such increase in history, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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