The not-quite-as-new American household: 3 generations, 1 welfare check, 1 public housing rat hole, 4 grams of crack, 15 bottles of malt liquor, 2 AK-47’s, 5 outstanding warrants, 27 stolen lottery tickets, 0 live at home fathers, 5 pairs of $200 designer sneakers...
...and a partridge in a pear tree.
You seem totally detached from reality, suggesting this is only happening to those living in the ghetto.
Trust me, this is happening everywhere, including your neighborhood.
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.
LOL
The MSM spins this as a good thing- “family togetherness” and all that. In reality, the fewer options you have, the less freedom you have.