Amid a national housing crisis, a quarter of Oklahoma renters met the qualifications to be considered extremely low-income, according to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition.

Those renters earned at or below 30% of the area’s median income, or about $30,000 for a four-person household.

Affordable housing in Oklahoma is scarce, which contributes to the state’s high eviction rates.

The coalition found just 38 affordable homes available per 100 extremely low-income renters in Oklahoma, fewer than last year’s 42. That’s slightly better than the national average of 35 affordable and available housing units per 100 renters.

Oklahoma has an estimated shortage of 84,718 affordable and available rental homes for extremely low-income renters.

In addition, there’s a shortage of landlor

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