Any job should be able to afford a single one bedroom apartment - this is part of the calculus of why people stay in bad and abusive relationships/situations.

Any job should be able to afford a single one bedroom apartment - this is part of the calculus of why people stay in bad and abusive relationships/situations. Any job, no matter how meager, should be able to sustain you, the individual, by yourself, should you choose to leave your situation. Any other structure is a failure somewhere (policy, incentives, housing, structurally). Fantastically popular city centers still require a huge number of people; what’s implied by having them waste their time on a commute and being unable to live near their job is that they’re “not worth” their presence - which, again, is required in the city center.