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Confirmed: Minimum Wage Not Enough For Housing

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The story is the same in many of our communities: renting a house is costly. 

Lots of people want housing, and the supply is low, driving up the price and keeping vacancies rare.  Now a minimum wage job can't provide enough money for even a basic apartment. 

Those are findings from the National Low Income Housing Coalition

We dive into the numbers with Diane Yentel, the president of NLIHC.  Todd Crabtree from the Mendocino Housing Authority joins the conversation with a local/regional angle. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.