Include estimated household income on both applications but don't include both names on both applications.  

What does it look like with a 45k salary for single mom with zero investment experience that just received an inheritance of "x", or the 80k salary for a single income household with 3 kids, a < 2k/mo mortgage?

Understanding this background on the situation... does anyone have previous experience with single income households where the "bread winner" goes on maternity leave and then has issues paying the rent.

Mortgages are the largest debt line-item for households.

We have long term renters in Houston that are a 30 year old married couple, combined household income of about $110k, and they're going to be renters for 3-4 more years (based on their own admission).

This increased the required household income to purchase the median-priced home by $6,400, to $119,700, after also accounting for the cost of tax and insurance.

The tenant is a survivor of family violence.This ground is allowed to be raised when one member of the household commits physical harm or reasonably places another in fear of imminent physical harm.

But here's the kicker: the median household income in 2021 was only $56,746, and most households below that are renters.In the article local agents in the multifamily sector talk about why landlords are hiking rents.

I chalked it up that he was going through some personal stuff but would not be renewing his lease, his lease ends on the last day of July.Well, a month went by and then I got to wake up to another large unhinged text of him accusing of another tenant of mine of a disgusting and sexual act in the bathroom openly in the household's group chat.

As rent has become more expensive more households are coupling via roommates, moving in with a partner, etc.