If you’re working a minimum-wage job and you want a two-bedroom apartment, you better find another job. Not a different job. An additional job.
That’s because it takes nearly two full-time jobs — 76 hours of work per week at minimum wage — to afford an average two-bedroom apartment in the Eugene-Springfield area, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The coalition said the area’s fair market value for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,495 — a 7% increase over last year’s rate of $1,397…