Household Expenditure Composition, % Shares by Category, Urban & Rural (1965-1971)
World Bank 1974 Statistical Appendix Table 9.2: food/tobacco, housing, clothing, education, recreation, etc.
Related_Laws
Laws related to this measure. Correlation = how closely this law tracks this measure's story. Expected causation = how strongly we would expect it to have moved the line. Neither is a claim of proof.
1974CorrelationExpected causationAct on the Adjustment and Stabilization of Rents
This law provides for the adjustment and stabilization of rental rates.
Why this link: These household-expenditure breakdowns by category (which include housing) capture the cost-of-living pressure that motivated the 1974 rent-control law; they provide context for why rent stabilization became a policy priority.
Caveat: These series run only through 1971, three years before the law's passage, so they show the pre-law conditions that prompted it rather than any measurable post-law effect.
Lag: Not applicable; series predates the law.