With every day, $1800/month rent digs a $60 hole in a household’s finances.
$1800/month rent? In the "low-come" densely populated city that I live in, a small 3 BR apt. with no parking in a 100 year-old building, often with mice, rats etc. is typically around $2400. Official average rent is 3k. Yet the vehicles are much better than when we moved here 30 years ago, and the pizza deliveries seem busy.