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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek
Avg Rent is actually $1317 a month as of Feb 2022 (page 51) and the wage required to have rent just be 30% of your income is about $27 an hour. I wonder what the median salary is in Winnipeg and how it compares to other cities in that regard.
Anyways only 3% of all dwelling units in the city would be considered affordable for someone making minimum wage. Increasing the wage is a necessity, but it has to be in conjunction with heavy investment into public housing. |
Absolutely. This whole profiting off the shortage of housing shit needs to be nipped in the bud and this would be one of the most effective ways to do it.