What's even more disturbing is a lot of landlords require your rent to be 33% of your monthly income. So basically you have to be making 3x your monthly rent to even get your application through unless it's income restricted in a bad spot or possibly slumlords
In certain places in MD apartments no matter how nice are required to have what's known as MPDU, moderately priced dwelling units, apartments which keeps them at reasonable costs but there's strict income requirements for it. If you're even $1 over the set threshold then you don't qualify. You also have to requalify for the apartment every single year.The apartments typically run anywhere from $400-800 lower than apartments the exact same size with no difference in anything inside the actual apartment. For instance a 1BR under that program for the current fiscal year which just reset in July keeps 1 BR at $1,290 for a 12 month lease and you have to make 2.5x the rent amount meanwhile the exact same apartment will be $1900+ for the same lease term for someone just applying regularly