Maybe elsewhere, but with two bedroom apartments going for $2000/mo and up around here, we have three generations, no welfare checks, no public housing, no crack, no alcohol, an undisclosed number of (legal) firearms, no wants nor warrants, paid-for lottery tickets, dads at home when they aren't working, and mmostly workboots, (no designer sneakers).
The trees are out back, and bear fruit in a good year--no partridge, though.
It isn't as bad as it has been, one daughter got a job which provides housing for her and the rest of her family.
Fixed income renters were hit hardest by the boom here (elderly, retired). Those who owned their homes have often sold for multiples of what they would have received in a 'normal' market, or are renting and living off the rent money elsewhere...
It isn't always a 'subsidized' situation, and I expect there will be more before there is less.
Yep.
Anyone thinking this is some “Ghetto” thing, must be detached from reality and in fact are likely living on government retirement checks delivered to their mail box.