Because the parent comment made the original assertion, and that's how the game works. "The earth is flat, prove me wrong!" no thanks.
Also, your second link is literally 642 pages, please point to the relevant part.
Re:The Despair of Poor White Americans
by yummyfajitas on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:03PM
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The second link is the American housing survey, and it describes in detail a huge number of qualities of housing.
For example (table 2-2, page 48), 2.75% of poor households have a sagging roof. 66% of poor households (table 2-3, page 50) have at least 2 rooms/person and 94% have at least 1 room/person. 3.5% (table 2-4, page 52) lack a complete kitchen.
I don't know of any single characteristic to cite to prove that the conditions of poor people's housing are good; but whatever specific characteristic you want info on, you can probably find it in that document.
Why don't you cite some of it, then?
I can certainly cite plenty of data showing he's mostly right. For example, the poor mostly do not work, they mostly have good quality housing, and they have lots of food.
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/2015/01/08/weight-and-social-mobil...
Concretely, what do you think he's wrong about, and where is the data supporting your claims?