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As the U.S. economy makes a long and slow recovery, there has been an increasing demand for affordable housing across the country. A recent report released by the DePaul University Institute for Housing Studies detailed the state of one Illinois county's rental housing market. It concluded that there was a countywide affordable housing shortage and that more than three-quarters of households making less than $35,000 per year in the county pay out more than 30 percent of their income to rent.