Nico’s Reviews > The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality > Status Update

"Howard notes that hidden welfare-state subsidies for [middle-class and upper-class] housing are more than twice the direct federal expenditures for rental housing subsidies and low-income housing ... This is a measure of how ingrained and taken for granted homeowner subsidies have become, as opposed to the intense annual scrutiny programs assisting needy families receive."