Earning Minimum Wage and Looking for a Place to Live? Check the "Dumps" Listings!

Group says $30k job required to rent decent one-bedroom apartment in Dane County. (Capital Times, 4/25/2014)

Which is why we've been reading a lot of this kind of headline.  "The government sets these housing rates, which include rent plus utilities, based on the local market for decent-quality apartments of different sizes — neither dumps nor luxury flats," reports the Washington Post. "These are also the rates that HUD uses to establish local housing subsidies."

Washington Post interactive map:   One-bedroom housing wages, by county.

Hmm, even spiffed-up but economically depressed Warren County, Pennsylvania, ranks 1,507

Photo by Retiring Guy

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