Girlfriend's sister and her husband were essentially homeless. Buying computer equipment and streaming gear they couldn't afford while living in her parents basement.
Their close friends had a child. Girlfriend's sister and her husband had a kid to be like their friends. Total disregard that they were living in her parents basement, not to save money or to buy a house, but because they lose their jobs so often they had no other choice.
They did something similar in Indiana. It's not a 'the cops are coming' thing. It's more about having a law that the school can reference when whiny ass parents get mad when a teacher takes a students phone away because it's disrupting class.