Quote:
Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Not necessarily. Thats what low income housing is for. A guy I play soccer with makes under $30k a year, and has a family with 3 children. Because he was below some sort of threshold, he qualifies for low-income housing, and his rent for a 3-bedroom condo is $800 per month.
|
Lets say that he's under $30,000 per year, which is about $2500 per month. Which after taxes is probably about $2000 per month and he's paying nearly 50% of his salary to housing and has $300 dollars a week to feed and clothe three kids, pay his bills and get to work and back.
This goes right towards what I'm saying. He's one maybe two paychecks from being homeless even with low cost housing and Jiri said it before, there's not enough low cost housing around for people making under $35000 per year.
I couldn't live on $300 dollars per week for food, clothes, bills gas costs etc, let alone with kids. Hell one date a week would wipe me out on that income level.