West was making her way through more menacing- looking government-subsidized housing.

For instance, as wages go up, so do rents of government-subsidized housing, while welfare benefits are cut back.

In the fall of 2000, the Garretts found government-subsidized housing with a monthly rent of $1,300.

Between 1934 and 1962, less than 2 percent of government-subsidized housing went to non-white people.

He is raised in government-subsidized housing, the youngest child of a laborer and a housewife who struggle to make ends meet.

"I called probably 25 major rental companies, and all you can find is government-subsidized housing if you qualify for it."

At least one developer wanted to raze the building, which by 1980 had been divided into cheap apartments, and construct low-cost, government-subsidized public housing.

But government-subsidized housing of this nature has been severely cut back in recent years.

She still lives in the same government-subsidized housing and still pays $138 a month rent.

Playa Vista is expected to cost perhaps $6 billion when complete, with a total of 13,000 housing units, including government-subsidized low-income housing.