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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by slothtrop on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:45AM (#34326522)
Sharing an apartment doesn't mean the minimum standard? I.e. one has to be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment on their own, or else they don't have a living wage?
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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by unglaublich on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:56AM (#34326772)
Yes. Plus a kid. Because that's what society relies on in the end, that we don't stop existing after a generation because it was too expensive.
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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by slothtrop on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:28AM (#34327313)
This could be trivially rigged by walling up the current large open apartment spaces to create very small private apartments - then voila, a large demographic suddenly has a living wage. Yet the living standard would arguably be worse.

Or do we plan on drastically increasing the builds and availability of one-bedroom apartments in a metropolis through sprawl? That doesn't sound very YIMBY.

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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by nobody9999 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:46PM (#34328572)
>Or do we plan on drastically increasing the builds and availability of one-bedroom apartments in a metropolis through sprawl? That doesn't sound very YIMBY.

Not through sprawl necessarily, but yes that's the plan[0][1]

[0] https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/01/hochul-wants-b...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2022-12-08/new...

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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by z0r on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:56AM (#34326758)
You can also beg for food on the street and technically survive, so there has to be some reasonable standard for what living wage. I'm pretty sure the poster you are replying to is not implying that those 5 people would be splitting a 5 bedroom apartment... Probably more like 5 people in a 2 bedroom.
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