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In reply to the discussion: This Map Shows the Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Home in Every State [View all]Celerity
(43,655 posts)31. the interactive map shows the costs for other sizes of flats too
I am at the point where I wish I had never posted this at all, as it is going into all sorts of tangential directions that are exact situation-specific (and thus beyond the scope of a simple dataset of rent vis-a-vis wages needed to maintain the 30% max of income threshold.)
I already edited the OP to re-emphasise the interactive map that breaks the data down to county and metro area level.
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This Map Shows the Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Home in Every State [View all]
Celerity
Jun 2019
OP
I've lived recently in Grant County and Bernalillo county both in New Mexico.
Turin_C3PO
Jun 2019
#23
'If you are renting a two bedroom place there is going to be at least two people making a wage.'
Celerity
Jun 2019
#12
they are just laying out the raw data, each individual situation can then be applied
Celerity
Jun 2019
#15
A single parent will have SNAP, Earned Income Credit, housing assistance, Medicare,...
Kaleva
Jun 2019
#20
and that's all true, but is also beyond the simple rent pricing numbers (and the data is not limited
Celerity
Jun 2019
#25
as I have shown already, the interactive map breaks it down to individual counties, and metro areas
Celerity
Jun 2019
#16
oh, it's oki, I am just a bit cranky this afternoon I guess (PMS time, yay!.. NOT) lololol
Celerity
Jun 2019
#40
Yes, thank you very much. I'm surprised at the issues that people are raising w/ you. ...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2019
#41