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TheLoneAdmin

The price of the rental is derived:

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Fair Market Rent (FMR) is typically the 40th percentile of gross rents for standard rental units.

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A. If you are at minimum wage, look for apartments in the 5th percentile, not a mid-range priced apartment.

B. Most minimum wage, one-income households only need one-bedroom apartment.

C. Or, get a roommate, rent drops in half.

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The minimum was wage enacted such that a single breadwinner earning minimum wage would be able to support a family. A family needs 2 bedrooms and a livable apartment, not the bottom of the barrel, squeezed in to one bedroom.

Do you have a source? The numbers don't back you up.

Min wage is the single-person poverty level, and is much higher now than when it was enacted.

At least in the US this is not true. The very first minimum wage, inflation adjusted, comes out to something like $8k/yr in today's money (https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/).

It is simply not viable or desirable to require the lowest skill jobs to pay enough to support a family. It has never been the case that the least skilled laborers in an economy were able to support families without support from other sources (e.g. a multigenerational house).

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