Rental options continue to be widely unaffordable for most low-income workers in Maryland, where a renter needs to make more than twice the minimum wage to afford a one-bedroom apartment, according to a new report.

The 2025 edition of the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s “ Out of Reach ” report says that a worker earning Maryland’s minimum wage of $15 an hour would need to work 89 hours a week in order to afford a one-bedroom rental home in the state and still have money for other living expenses.

This is the second year that the coalition ranked Maryland as the eighth-most difficult state for low-income renters to afford.

Claudia Wilson Randall, executive director of the Community Development Network of Maryland, said she’s “disappointed” in the lack of movement.

“We have

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