Results: If households lived in market rental accommodation, average monthly incomes
were insufficient to cover expenses for the single-person household and two-parent family,
and barely adequate for the single-parent family considered in this study. However, the
single-parent family’s actual income fell below expenses for six months of the year. For
households with children, the relative inadequacy of welfare increased as children grew
older. Living in rent-geared-to-income housing afforded substantial financial advantage,
but the welfare income of single-person households was still insufficient to meet basic
needs.