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by sokoloff 1459 days ago
> Rent, not mortgages, has gone up from 1k to 2.5k here. For a one bedroom apartment. Minimum wage here will get you ~2k/mo.

A few posts ago, it was "median rent costs double (or tripple, or more) the median income". Now, it's "rent is about the same as minimum income" (which is still a problem, but nowhere near the same thing as the prior claim).