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[michaelmrose]

If you don't own a home you have to rent and they simply won't and can't legally rent you too small an apartment or one with insufficient bedrooms.

In practice having 2 or 3 kids is going to mean going from studio/1 br to 2/3 br and double or triple housing costs.

[dvdkon → michaelmrose]

That seems draconian. Is that a US federal/US state/other country law?

[helge9210 → dvdkon]

Same in Germany. There are minimum requirements on the living area for children.

[michaelmrose → dvdkon]

State by state but the same most places. Even if the law would let you are you going to raise a family in your 350 sq studio?