Progressive Measures Won’t Help Housing And Poverty, More Housing And Growth Will

Qualitative and quantitative measures of poverty are intended to end or help ameliorate poverty. In the case of housing, for example, governments in the United States have determined that the normative standard for affordability is that a household should spend no more and no less than 30 percent of it’s gross monthly income on housing costs – any more and that household is cost burdened, and any less the household is paying too little, taking up a unit that could be lived in by a household earning less money.