Did you know?

• An average apartment in the Twin Cities rents for $855 per month, which requires an annual income of at least $34,200 -- a full-time wage of more than $16.00 per hour.
• Housing is generally considered affordable if it costs no more than 30 percent of a household's income, whether the "household" is an individual or a family.
• Low-income individuals and families have difficulties finding housing. Someone with a full-time minimum wage job ($6.15 per hour) can only afford a monthly rent of $320 or less.
• An estimated 184,000 low-income households in the Twin Cities seven-county region currently spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.
• Two-thirds of current job vacancies in the Twin Cities have starting pay less than $16 per hour; nearly half start at less than $11 per hour.
• On a typical night nearly 8,000 people (5,000 adults and 3,000 children) are homeless in Minnesota. 

Wilder Research Reports

A selection of Wilder's most recent relevant work on affordable and supportive housing.

Research on other topics.

Related Links

Affordable Housing: Answers to Common Questions, Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing: Making it a Reality, Metropolitan Council

The Crisis in America's Housing: Confronting Myths and Promoting a Balanced Housing Policy, Center for Community Change and other organizations

Family Housing Fund fact sheets

Housing in Minnesota: An overview, HousingMinnesota

The State of the Nation's Housing 2005

Strategies for Preventing Homelessness, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development