Really fed up with these pieces fretting about how *minimum* wage isn't sufficient for *average* rental prices--by definition, there are lots of rentals for less than the average price!https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-much-you-need-for-rent_us_5942cc92e4b0f15cd5b9e2ee …
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That's because you're not thinking about it as a single parent who may have to support a child.
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Wow I guess they're gonna have to turn to any of the countless apartments that are below the average local rent
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I mean, I brought up studios etc--but even among 2BR houses at market value (eg ignoring ALL subsidized housing), the article is looking at the 40th percentile rent, so 2 out of every 5 such houses will be that price or lower
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it's true. but, if your a parent with a child. it's not possible anymore to be on a minimum wage job and afford housing.
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*housing that's respectable. I'm sure there maybe a range , but it's the first time in a long time that average rent for a single-income household won't even be covered by a single earner at minimum wage.
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if you're a single parent with a minimum wage job "respectable" housing is maybe an unrealistic standard--what's the point of providing subsidized housing if not exactly for struggling cases like this?
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"Respetable" housing is what my family and many others had for a very long time. It's now not even within reach throughout 90% of the country.
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What constitutes "respectable" exactly
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If articles like this help to spur more equitable pay regimes I'll take them being misleading.
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what if they are so transparently misleading that they prompt people to think there isn't really a problem
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what if the problem here is that the housing market is so locked down that landlords can extort whatever they want, and we decide to start rising to their outrageous demands every time they go up instead of just building more houses
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What if you a single mom tho
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then you are not the bulk of minimum wage workers; this map is talking about all minimum wage workers, not just single moms moreover, it's talking about market rent--ie it's not even factoring in subsidized housing (let alone any other social programs that can augment wages)
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(and ofc there is still my point in the first tweet which is that you can expect about half of the two-bedroom rental homes in each state to be *lower* than the price used for the analysis)
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The perverse way this information gets disseminated and digested has other consequences too. The market for studios and 1 bd apts. is completely dysfunctional.
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It basically assumes people living beyond their means. Nothing more "Normal" than that
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I think we need more low skill workers to drive down wages and drive up the cost of living.
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