This chapter identifies the fragmentation or fractures in the institutional structure of local safety nets that will be prevalent across different communities which limits decision-making processes regarding the delivery of antipoverty assistance. It argues that persistent or rampant fragmentation or atomization of the institutions composing local safety nets necessarily complicates the provision of social assistance by creating inefficiencies, promoting inequities, and constraining the responsiveness of local social service programs. It also argues that fragmented politics of local safety nets show how mismatches and instabilities service provision come into existence and persist over time.