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In Dandridge v. Williams, 397 U.S. 471, 487, 90 S. Ct. 1153, 1163, 25 L. Ed. 2d 491 (1970), a challenge was brought to Maryland’s administration of a cap on the amount of money any single family could receive in order to qualify for housing subsidies. #MarxistLaw 
Previously, this was done in proportion to occupancy of the house. This $250 a month cap was challenged as acting as a form of discrimination for impoverished households with large families and in violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.
The Court held that there was no violation of the equal protection clause and Justice Stewart added that “the intractable economic, social, and even philosophical problems presented by public welfare assistance programs are not the business of this Court.”
