1 when housing hurts.

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Nearly a quarter of all working households spend more than half their income on housing. That rate increased significantly between 2008 and 2010, according to the Center for Housing Policy, which looked at census data. Despite falling home prices and values, incomes declined even more. Renters fared even worse, with higher rents and lower incomes. The five states in 2010 with the largest share & working households carrying a "severe housing cost...