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Can you name a county where the federal minimum wage can pay for a 1 bedroom apartment?
How about state minimum wage?
Did you know that in some cases it is literally cheaper to just give homeless people houses?
Why do Americans consider houses to be their primary asset which must appreciate in value?
What do these questions have in common? Capitalism (particularly of the American variety)
Some light reading for the curious: USA overview
Helsinki Homelessness Solution (the Guardian)
California info (refer to the sources in the footnotes)
Fuck, take the Wikipedia page of you want
$7.25 x 2080 (number of working hours in a year) / 12 = $1,256 A 1 bedroom can be rented for as little as $500-$600 in my city, even less if you have roommates. (Example: $800 for a 2 bedroom means it's only $400/person and each person gets their own bedroom) Maybe the minimum wage should be increased since it hasn't since 2009? You keep talking about just giving people a house. Have you given your house to a homeless person? Let them have it for free? Then you could walk away and buy another house to give away to another homeless person.