A new study has found if you want to rent a one bedroom apartment in St. Catharines Niagara you would have to earn over $16 dollars and work 48 hours a week to afford it.
The study by the Centre for Policy Alternatives looked at the rental wage in 795 Canadian cities.
The wage is defined as the hourly wage needed to afford an average apartment without spending more than 30% of one’s earnings.
And in our area, if you want to rent a two bedroom unit, you would need to earn close to $20 an hour and work 57 hours a week.
The study also found there are no neighbourhoods in Canada’s biggest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, where a full-time minimum wage worker could afford either a modest one- or two-bedroom apartment