anotherdayforchaosfay:
petite-pixie-princess:
sailor-sappho:
softpastelqueer:
millennial-review:
For reference, the federal minimum wage would have you earning roughly on average $1,256.66 a month
It’s recommended your rent only be 30% of your total budget, so with an average monthly rent of $1,827 that would mean your average renter’s monthly income should ideally be $6,090
That would be roughly $35.13 hourly or $73,080 annually
However, the average renter’s household income is only $42,500 annually or $20.43 hourly (as of 2019 according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey)
This means either rent prices are too unsustainably high and price gouging or wages are too unsustainably low and predatory
Or both
Both.
It’s why I rent my parents basement unit for 800 a month now.
I firmly believe housing is a basic human right and ought to be free of cost. We also should have UBI (unconditional basic income) to help bring the population out of poverty, make it possible to live, and not work more than one full time job. There have been experiments regarding this. Crime went down, drug ODs went down (addiction comes from a place of pain, be it mental, physical, or otherwise), fewer students dropping out of school (hs and uni), better childcare, happier people, businesses thrived because people could afford to buy things, and all sorts of other positives.
But folks with money don’t wanna do that because in order for them to feel/be more powerful, they need to be walking on a road covered by the bodies of everyone else.
(via sleeepyinseattle)