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Appendix E: Affordability and Displacement Everett Housing Action Plan E-10 Cost Burden and Equity Determining the risks that households face with housing affordability and displacement can also extend to understanding the role that the housing market has had in reinforcing inequities between different groups by race and ethnicity. Even after formal discrimination in the housing market was prohibited by law, differences in community resources and informal challenges have continued many of the impacts of these policies on people of color in the community. To assess these impacts, Figures 9 and 10 break down the counts and proportions, respectively, of housing cost burdens faced by different groups in the community. From this information, aggregate differences in housing costs burdens are largely nominal, with white households and households that are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) equivalent with respect to severe cost burdens. With respect to overall cost burdens, BIPOC households have a slightly higher rate of cost burden than white households (52% versus 47%). Examining groups in more detail, the most significant disparity between cost burdens is with Hispanic/Latino households. Compared to the overall average of 49% of households being cost burdened, about 59% of Hispanic/Latino households experience some level of cost burden. This disparity is most notably with households spending 30–50% of their income on housing, which would suggest that this is a concern, but may not reflect a critical immediate need. Still, this does highlight that Hispanic/Latino households may have a slightly higher risk of economic displacement in the community over other groups. Paired with concerns about cultural and social displacement, anti-displacement policies developed should be sensitive to the needs faced by this community. Additionally, while other groups in the community that have faced historical inequities may not have distinctly higher housing gaps in aggregate, housing policies should still be sensitive to the different needs of these groups across the community.