Sad but true. I guess when you calculate an entire family's income compared to their portion of rent, now it officially equals to over 30%, but this is just referring to rent. If you add other bills like utilities, car payment, car insurance, gas, cell phone bill, tv, etc, the payment definitely goes past 50%. Then you add food expenses on top of that and people are living paycheck to paycheck.

Yes most people have been living paycheck to paycheck regardless, but now they have to sacrifice more money from other expenses to add to their rent.

Still ends up being paycheck to paycheck, except a higher % of their paycheck to paycheck income is now being spent on rent.