Pity the government official coping with budget crises and all the demands on shrinking resources. Their decisions can have ripple effects with unintended consequences. For instance, a decision to reduce benefits when individuals are sharing housing. Of course, from one perspective the beneficiary may not need as much money as when they weren’t sharing housing. [...]
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Doubling up is Bad?
The Center for American Progress just published an article, The New Housing Normal for Low-Income Families, that cogently makes the case for why it’s not okay for families to “double up.” The article has also been posted here. Read it for the typical social policy response to sharing housing. According to the author the problems [...]