Being that New York City is the most expensive city in the world, the issue of minimum wage is a hot button issue, recently illustrated with the MTA's removal of the #raisethewage subway ads. 

Part of the tension is the razor's edge on which far too many New Yorkers live, struggling to make ends meet. While many are above the poverty line, there are also around 60,000 people in homeless shelters in the City, and close to 40% of them are children. 

So when it comes to affordable NYC housing for minimum wage workers, the options are limited. 

Thankfully, StreetEasy put together an interactive map illustrating the best options for renting in the City on minimum wage.

Not surprisingly, there aren't many neighborhoods in the five boroughs that are friendly to a tight budget. 

StreetEasy found that Bedford-Stuyvesant leads the City in affordable housing. In fact, Brooklyn will lead de Blasio's affordable housing plans for the City. 

Queens will also see some affordable housing put up in the near future, however, it's mostly within flood zones-- so you can conveniently drown in debt and rising sea levels at the same time. 

The interactive map makes some assumptions in order to corral the data into a good representation. 

The map reflects affordability for those earning a minimum wage working full time, which is far from always the case. Jobs offering minimum wage are often part time, and that's part of the problem-- people have to find two or three jobs just to stay afloat. 

Another assumption the map is based on is that each room in a given apartment houses one full-time minimum wage earner-- not always the case either. Consider a single parent with two kids; that individual may have a two or three bedroom place, but only one earner living there. 

So the map's not infallible by any means, and it's based on data from 2014, the most recent statistics available. But it can be a big help to anyone on a strict budget looking to move into or around the City.

Check out There Haven't Been This Many Vacant Manhattan Rentals in Almost a Decade. 

[via StreetEasy]