So do you have a link to a reliable figure as to what 20th percentile rent is? "I'm sure you would agree with me if you knew a statistic that I'm not going to share with you" is hardly a convincing argument.

I'm not doing your homework.

The original post said the average cost for a studio was $900. You claim that the 20th percentile cost is $1000.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever, so you go figure out what the real numbers are and then we can talk.

I claimed 20th percentile IN MINNEAPOLIS was $1000. That just means Minneapolis is more expensive than the national average. You're the one claiming that a 20th percentile apartment is affordable on minimum wage, so how about a source for what that figure is?

For some other random cities using the same methodology (1 bedroom) Wichita: 500 St Louis: 650 Columbus: 800 Pittsburgh: 850 Dallas/Fort Worth: 950 Nashville: 1000 Orlando: 1200 Sacramento: 1200

What methodology would you use to find this data if Appartments.com isn't reliable?

It's not that apartments.com isn't reliable, I would assume it reliably reports the data it gets.

But most apartments don't get rented through apartments.com, and the ones that don't are skewed towards the lower end of the market.

The 4-flat where the owner is renting out the other 3 places and living in one of them doesn't show up on apartments.com. I don't know where you find good comprehensive data, you tell me. But if you are looking at bad data because you can't find good data, you are the drunk looking for his keys underneath the street light not because he lost his keys there but because the light is good.