In Let Them Get Roommates, Bryan Caplan makes a Non-Bleeding Heart Libertarian argument:
A fun fact about the U.S. versus Europe is that [the] poorest 25% of Americans have more living space than the average European. But some Americans have been left behind. Our most deprived citizens often sleep three to a room, eat prison-grade food, and share bathroom facilities with dozens of unhygenic strangers. They are known as… college students.
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Why aren’t (relatively) poor Americans expected to live like college students?