Hourly wage needed for decent apartment is rising everywhere

The National Low Income Housing Coalition has released its annual report, “Out of Reach.” Connecticut has the eighth-most-expensive housing wage in the country. A housing wage is the amount of money an employee must earn in order to afford a decent apartment. In Connecticut, where our minimum wage is $9.6- an hour, a person must …

Another good argument for affordable housing

This says that a lack of affordable housing also creates a lack of teachers. So some districts are supplementing teachers’ benefits with help toward rent or mortgage. Pulled from the article: As South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard said in his recent State of the State address: “The quality of education suffers when the schools cannot …

Woody Guthrie once rented an apartment from Donald Trump’s father

Read this. Fascinating! The piece includes this: Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…Listen to John Dankosky’s “Where We Live” at 9 a.m. on Friday as we talk about — what else? — the high cost of renting in Connecticut. I wrote about this earlier for the station’s website. and now we’re going to delve deeper into the topic, with the expert guidance of Katy Shafer of Partnership for Strong Communities, Betsy …