I doubt Section 8/low-income housing has minimum square footage requirements; even better - a commute to work doesn’t even have to be factored into the equation!
In my area construction of stand-alone single family homes has stopped altogether (twenty years ago such homes would be built wherever space was available); they are simply a holdover from another era when Americans would live in a home for thirty years, and raise children as well. After a complete halt to construction, now we have apartment/condo-type buildings going up, for childless Americans and imported foreigners. Unlike previous developments, these don’t require school construction as part of the package - they are being built to shore up sagging enrollments in existing school systems.
The most ominous sign is the building of “dog parks”, and the push to allow dogs (not service dogs, mind you) into eating areas in NYC restaurants. Pets are the last “children” of many Americans that are the last branches of their family tress. As I posted on other threads, politics has been reduced to warring between makers (many of whom have no genetic future) and takers (many of whom have no economic future); the latter are winning because at the very least they produce an army of replacement voters.
Makers take into account how many children they can afford. Takers breed indiscriminately and expect taxpayers to shoulder the financial burden. Hence the apparent uptick in Section 8 housing.