Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago
Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago
“Since pre-pandemic, the income needed to afford rent has increased by 31.5%,” Zillow’s chief economist, Skylar Olsen, wrote yesterday.

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iopq @lemmy.world 5 is more representative than the mode, since it does show that about half make more and half made less
1 is ignoring the rest of the data completely
1 1 ReplyMaggoty @lemmy.world If this was a representative sample the ones would have rebelled already. This is a teaching example.
1 0 Replyiopq @lemmy.world Not really, if the 1 is $100,000, should they feel worse than the $500,000 and above?
1 2 ReplyMaggoty @lemmy.world The 1 is not 100,000 and you know it.
1 0 Replyiopq @lemmy.world Yes, but my point is not everyone should be equal, everyone should have enough money to live
Those are very different goals
1 0 ReplyMaggoty @lemmy.world Did I say we should make everyone live on the exact same income?
For giggles though if we distributed our GDP equally it would be about 106,000 after the government budget is taken out. And that's without accounting for not having to pay Medicaid/SSI/SSDI/etc... anymore.
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