{"id":4766,"date":"2017-06-09T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2017-06-09T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:23:01","slug":"heres-how-much-you-would-need-to-afford-rent-in-your-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/heres-how-much-you-would-need-to-afford-rent-in-your-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how much you would need to afford rent in your state"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  The most expensive state for housing is Hawaii, where workers would need to make $35.20 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment. They would need to make $33.58 in the District of Columbia, $30.92 in California, <strong>$28.27 in Maryland<\/strong>, and $28.08 in New York.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did I mention we&#8217;re trying to buy a home in Maryland? My wife and I make good money but we are still <em>DC Poor<\/em>. My wife and I make well above minimum wage, but many people in our fields do not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In the District, where the hourly minimum wage is $12.50, a household &#8212; say a single parent &#8212; must earn $69,840 a year to be able to afford the fair market rent of $1,746 a month for a two-bedroom apartment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you know people who work multiple jobs to pay for the roof over their heads?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Someone making the federal minimum wage would need to work 117 hours a week &#8212; or nearly three full-time jobs &#8212; to be able to afford a two-bedroom apartment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are plenty of people in this area who are working hours like this. Going from job to job to job to afford to live in a house they never see. To support their children and their families and allow them to have a home. Affordable housing is vital to everything else. What would you do without a place to keep what you value safe? Without that peace of mind and basic level of security, you have nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/06\/08\/heres-how-much-you-would-need-to-make-to-afford-housing-in-your-state\">Here\u2019s how much you would need to afford rent in your state &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most expensive state for housing is Hawaii, where workers would need to make $35.20 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment. They would need to make $33.58 in the District of Columbia, $30.92 in California, $28.27 in Maryland, and $28.08 in New York. Did I mention we&#8217;re trying to buy a home in Maryland? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[1153,1154],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-shared","tag-affordable-housing","tag-rent","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}