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Housing crisis grows as wages fall farther behind rising rents: Out of Reach 2021 report

For most low-wage workers, decent rental housing is unaffordable — nationwide and in Missouri. In no state, metropolitan area, or county in the U.S. can a worker earning the prevailing minimum wage afford a modest two-bedroom rental home in a standard 40-hour work week.

More housing stress: Hourly wage needed to afford 2 BR apartment in KC rises to $18.81

In the first six months of 2020, the economic situation for low-wage workers has precipitously worsened: in June the Department of Labor reported that over 34 million people were receiving or had applied for unemployment insurance.