As sibling commenter pointed out, typing "Seattle" doesn't yield results for Seattle, but rather the whole Seattle/Tacoma metro area, which includes several places that you can get a $1500 studio plus utilities in.
Re:Living Wage Calculator
by cratermoon on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:43PM
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Ah yes, that can be deceptive. Maybe some people would want to live in Tacoma and commute to Seattle to work, or WFH.
Yes, that's "living", nothing more. A home. It even says in the technical documentation, "We assumed that a one adult family would rent a single occupancy unit (zero bedrooms) for an individual adult household"
I can't account for your thoughts on utilities, the site says the housing includes them, but perhaps there's room to improve the data.