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I'm all for people earning a fair wage but I find reports like this a bit disingenuous. A minimum wage person can't afford a median apartment? Ok but you would
by zuminator 7y ago
I'm all for people earning a fair wage but I find reports like this a bit disingenuous. A minimum wage person can't afford a median apartment? Ok but you would expect that minimum wage workers would seek out bargain low-end units, and leave the median apartments to median income families.
So while acknowledging that in many cities including my own there is an overall affordability issue, I have a problem with being presented with misleading statistics, even if for noble reasons. About 5 percent of workers make minimum wage or less. A straightforward and honest question would be to ask if they can they afford available apartments in the bottom 5-10% range of rents? Maybe they can't, and that would indeed be a problem. But in terms of this report, we have no way of knowing.