My friend and her now 7 kids, and husband lived in public housing. At one point she got into this program where she got a nice size house, in some suburban Chicago area. Her rent was modified. Her husband only needed to keep his job so they could keep paying... he didn’t. She’s now in public housing again in a different state. Her husband is with her. Back in college a lot of the families I used to volunteer and help with were immigrant families living in public housing. The parents were married.