ABSTRACT
Housing is often described in the media as a problem to be solved, especially when housing is seen as targeted toward households in poverty. A class bias in the portrayal of housing policy makes housing people who have trouble affording rent a problem and discourages government involvement in the housing market. This problematizing of government work to assist people in poverty undermines public support for subsidized housing policies and discourages attention to the ways that middle- and upper-class households also benefit from housing policy.
