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(06-20-2022, 03:47 PM)basballguy Wrote: I'm riding a roller coaster with your posts today.  You'll say like 4 or 5 things I can agree with then one or two things that make me do a doubletake.  :)  

If you're gonna put the average rent, why not put the average wage (instead of the lowest possible wage?)  What's the lowest possible rent in Nashville?  I bet it's not 1700/month. 

Anyways, those people on the lower end of the income scale making 300/week fulltime can afford those things with the programs that are available to them.  Housing assistance, welfare, zero tax liability.  Will they get a 1700/month apartment?  Probably not.  Will they be able to survive?  In theory, yes.  

Unless of course, you're advocating to raise the minimum wage, eliminate those programs, and level the tax liability.  I can get behind that idea.  :)

I don't know if I can answer all those questions, but here's what I can tell you - $1700/month apartment is crazy high. That's about the cost of apartments right by my office building.
I do see a small number of apartments for $800-1000, but they are in a terrible part of downtown. I would not choose to live over there unless it was absolutely necessary. Costs like that are not something someone making $40k or less really can realistically afford. And not everywhere is paying even $15+ per hour, which would be $31,200 per year on 40 hours a week, 52 weeks.

I lived in a $800/month apartment in Columbus, OH back in 2008-2011. It now costs $1500+ for a 1-BR in the same exact complex. Nothing really about the apartment complex has changed.


Housing/rent costs have about doubled, but salaries/wages in a majority of jobs have not jumped quite to the same degree.