Rent in Ottawa out of reach for low-income earners, report finds | CBC News
The report, published Thursday by the Centre for Canadian Policy Alternatives (CCPA), calculates the rental wage — the hourly wage needed to rent an average two-bedroom apartment without spending more than 30 per cent of a tenant’s earnings — in communities over 10,000 people.
In Ottawa, where the average rent for a two-bedroom unit is $1,301, an employee earning Ontario’s $14 per hour minimum wage would have to work 75 hours per week to afford the rent. An employee working 40 hours per week would have to earn $26 per hour, or nearly double the provincial minimum wage.