In this blog post, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki with the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University estimates assistance for renters with at-risk wages could range from $274 million up to a staggering $7.5 billion. Already, 5.3 million renter households with at-risk wages were cost burdened before COVID-19 hit. Amid rising unemployment, the number of cost-burdened renter households with at-risk wages would rise by 4.0 million to reach 9.3 million.