Suburban Housing Costs Are Stretching Families to the Brink

“The 1950s stereotypes surrounding place-based, ‘urban’ poverty are still deeply embedded in American policy and culture, preventing families from accessing affordable, safe housing key to their work-life stability and wellbeing. American suburbs were not designed to accommodate affordable housing units or the influx of renters who are now the norm, nor were federal housing policies designed to confront the suburbanization of poverty.”