A new CCPA research report,
Unaccommodating: Rental Housing Wage in Canada, finds that it takes 54 hours a week at minimum wage to afford the average 1BR apartment in Hamilton.
Going off their data, this is actually fairly middle-of-the-pack.
Vancouver: 84 hours
Toronto: 79 hours
Victoria: 67 hours
Regina: 65 hours
Saskatoon: 65 hours
Oshawa: 64 hours
Barrie: 63 hours
Winnipeg: 63 hours
Halifax: 61 hours
Kelowna: 61 hours
Ottawa: 61 hours
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo: 58 hours
Guelph: 57 hours
Calgary: 56 hours
Kingston: 55 hours
St. John’s: 55 hours
Hamilton: 54 hours
Abbotsford-Mission: 51 hours
Belleville: 50 hours
Peterborough: 50 hours
Brantford: 49 hours
London: 48 hours
Moncton: 48 hours
St. Catharines-Niagara: 48 hours
Greater Sudbury: 47 hours
Montreal: 47 hours
Quebec: 47 hours
Gatineau: 46 hours
Thunder Bay: 46 hours
Lethbridge: 45 hours
Saint John: 44 hours
Windsor: 42 hours
Sherbrooke: 33 hours
Trois-Rivieres: 31 hours
Saguenay: 30 hours
But that's about as much good news as you'll find in the report.