Minimum wage can no longer afford an 2 bedroom apartment anywhere in the US. - Sensationalist Headlines

Tbh i don't mind living at home. Not having a choice for the future sucks though

Yeah there are a few people here, but it's much easier to have some privacy. Either way I'd still rather have my own place, or it would be fantastic if I had friends I could actually tolerate rooming with.

Here in Canada my mom was like "how come you can't get a house" and I let her in on the house search and now she's able to compare her 90k house from the 80's (3 bed, 2 bath, lawn, backyard, trees, garage) with my selection of 250k apartments (2 bed 1 bath, parking spot).

Youre lucky, my parents just plug their ears and close their eyes when i show how fucked the housing market is atm.

That's a little less than what I pay for a 1br near DC

A lot of us are doing what we can by voting. But beyond that, when most of us don't really have the options for unions, there isn't a whole lot else we can do.

Democracy doesn't really function correctly here so there's not much we can do.

Unions have been pretty much disbanded since the 70s. Which ironically the middle class has also fallen apart since the start of the collapse. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/union-inequality-wages/497954/ There always been this huge scare that all unions are evil since the 70s.

West Palm Beach Pogchamp

I live in SE FL, do you live in Orlando? My best friends dad passed away and she inherited the condo they had paid for. Im not sure how much it was for, but shes paying about 800$ a month for a huge 2 bedroom with a balcony. I know theres really cheap housing in Orlando for very nice, huge homes.

No, we're in the Panhandle. We've got 4 months before our lease ends and we're free to look elsewhere. Unfortunately I'm really set on moving out of state as I believe there are greener pastures somewhere north and away from the coast. Those places look really nice but that second one has a really high min monthly income requirement and I'm almost certain both would outright say no to a large low-income family.

The first listing says ***Equal Housing Opportunity*** on the bottom of it

"Legal" means less and less these days. Fines have turned into prices, and things like this turn into "and what are you going to do about it?" Labor union? Paid off. And plus are you really going to go through that process? Do you even have the time to do so? Maybe get a lawyer and sue them. But you definitely can't afford that. So, you just deal with it because there's literally nothing you can do without giving up a lot.

Surely, there has to be a point though at which people go enough is enough and revolt over this. Surely. It would make my life to see Wal-Mart burn to ashes though. Would love the same to for the job I worked at for 4 years that nearly killed me from stress or me trying to off myself.

I just moved 40 miles north of the Portland/Vancouver area after living there my entire life. I got a 2 bedroom house that's literally half the price of the 2 bedroom apartment I was living in

The rent for a one bedroom where I live starts at 1100, but everywhere I'm looking is trying to get at least 1500.

I remember there was some study in NJ that to afford a two bedroom apartment you have to make roughly $55,000/yearly in order to afford living. Most of the low end apartments in my area are around $1,000 a month. It sucks.

They really are destroying this area. I'm in the upstate area and we've recently lost a ton of woodland areas to new development. Over the past few years I think there have been approximately four large apartment complexes that have gone up near my grandma's house. That area looks completely different now, and it's depressing as hell. My hometown still has a number of farms scattered around, so I can only imagine what it's going to look like if those people sell their land.

Wages and costs of living are out of balance. If we let this shit continue, only business owners will be able to afford tiny apartments and the workers will have to live in dorms with other people and as time passes the more will have to move in.