Minimum wage–homelessness tradeoff

Updated: 2025.07.29 7M ago 1 sources
Evidence that raising minimum wages may increase homelessness in high-cost cities, complicating anti-poverty policy. — Shapes debates on wage floors, housing affordability, and the design of social safety nets.

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The roundup cites Seth Hill’s study finding homelessness rose more where minimum wages increased more from 2006–2019.
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