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• MONTHLY HOUSING ALLOWANCE
  
  The percentage of a person's income they can comfortably use each month to pay for where they live—with enough left over to spend on food, clothing, and other luxuries. As the result of a series of mind-numbing calculations, mortgage experts have determined that most folks can spend approximately 28% of their total income on housing.
  
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