{"id":13780,"date":"2023-06-16T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=13780"},"modified":"2023-07-22T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T19:15:56","slug":"rent-every-year-the-media-falls-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/06\/16\/rent-every-year-the-media-falls-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent: Every year the media falls for this"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Renters must earn close to $30 an hour to afford a two-bedroom unit, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/2023\/06\/most-oregon-renters-full-time-wages-arent-enough-to-comfortably-afford-rent.html\">Most Oregon renters\u2019 full-time wages aren\u2019t enough to comfortably afford rent &#8211; oregonlive.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>They leave out that this is the income needed to afford an apartment <em><strong>priced at the 40th percentile of market rents<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Stated another way, their report has the genius conclusion that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Average renter cannot afford a one bedroom apartment in the top 60% of the market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But they never come out and say that. Instead, they intentionally obfuscate to imply those earning a minimum income cannot afford to live anywhere &#8211; yet they can and do rent lower priced units, priced lower than the 40th percentile. Duh.<\/p>\n<p>Bad reporting like this, falling prey to propaganda from an activist group, is misinformation &#8211; and possibly disinformation since this is intentional misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ultimately, they are saying that some one with a low income cannot rent an apartment at the high end of the market! Brilliant conclusion!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wrote about this intentionally misleading report and the subsequent media nonsense back in 2020 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/07\/15\/false-full-time-low-income-wage-earners-cannot-afford-a-2-bedroom-rental-anywhere-in-the-u-s\/\">read the write up from then<\/a>. Nothing changes from year to year &#8211; the same group publishes the same report every year. The media writes the same report, year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, an activist\/lobbying group issues a report saying people earning minimum wage cannot afford to rent an apartment anywhere in the country. They play a sleight-of-hand trick by obfuscating (and not revealing) that they are saying such individuals cannot rent an apartment priced at the 40th percentile. Stated another way, this report finds &#8211; every year &#8211; that people earning minimum wage can not rent apartments priced in the top 60 percent of the market &#8211; yet obviously, lower earners likely rent at the bottom of the market, not the top. Every year, the media morons run the same story, never understanding what this report says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,16,24,26,29,30,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal-to-authority","category-assertion","category-business","category-emotion","category-in-practice","category-lies","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}