| INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Full-time Hoosier workers need to earn $22.18 per hour to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent in Indiana. This is Indiana’s “2025 Housing Wage” according to Out of Reach, a report published jointly today by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and Prosperity Indiana. The data for Out of Reach – Indiana 2025 finds that working Hoosiers are struggling to make the rent with an average renter wage of $18.05, with Indiana’s median renter household income of $43,672 that now ranks dead last in the Midwest, and with two-thirds of Indiana’s 20 largest occupations that fail to pay enough to meet the state’s 2025 Housing Wage.Read the full report here on Housing4Hoosiers. |
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| ###About Prosperity IndianaThe Indiana Association for Community Economic Development d/b/a Prosperity Indiana builds a better future for our communities by providing advocacy, leveraging resources, and engaging an empowered network of members to create inclusive opportunities that build assets and improve lives. Since its founding in 1986, Prosperity Indiana’s network has grown to nearly 200 organizations, representing thousands of practitioners statewide from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.About NLIHCThe National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice. |
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