Housing Four Minimum-Wage Jobs to Rent a Two-Bedroom

To afford a median two-bedroom in Santa Clara County you need about $125,280 a year — the equivalent of four full-time minimum-wage jobs. Renters in San José need $136,532, the highest in the nation, and no Silicon Valley city has raised its minimum wage in three years. Homelessness rose 8.2% in a single year. At De Anza College in Cupertino — a top community college — roughly 20% of students are homeless, some sleeping in the campus parking lot with faculty permission.