Source: Niskanen Center
by Zachary Parolin
“Poverty is typically understood as a shortage of resources relative to needs. Policy strategies aimed at reducing poverty tend to focus on the resources side of that equation, studying, for example, how cash transfers or minimum wage increases affect poverty through their increases in families’ incomes. This report, in contrast, shifts focus to the role of housing policy and local housing costs in influencing the needs side of the poverty equation. Policy strategies aimed at increasing housing supply and reducing housing costs should be viewed analogously to anti-poverty strategies focused on the direct redistribution of cash income.” (07/08/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/housing-policy-and-poverty-the-case-of-california