In my home turf, you need to be earning $20.83 to afford a one-bedroom apartment.



Guess that accounts for many folks working 2 jobs. But if they're below $10.10 an hour, they're still coming up short.

Not surprised - and this is why I think 10.10 is not enough - and we need to start weighing the poverty line by regional wealth.

In my county it states 11/hr. I personally rent out perfectly comfortable well maintained TWO bedroom HOUSES for $550/mo or less. Lesser rents can easily be found if you are ok with smaller places or more marginal neighborhoods, although we have very few truly bad neighborhoods. A 11/hr job would mean a gross income of $1907/mo so my guess is that they are a) looking at median rents rater than acceptable unit rents AND assuming the traditional <30% of gross pay rent.

Here's the link for where the numbers come from: http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014_WhereNumbers.pdf