The first 60 pages of Nickel and Dimed tell us enough about the lack of housing among lower-wage workers during the year of 1998-2000. As Barbara started her project by working as a restaurant sever in Key West, she has learnt that the majority of her co-workers do not have proper or affordable houses to live in. Some of them have to stay in a rental trailer or even on a boat (25). Some have to unwantedly stay in a hotel room since they really need to have a comfortable place to lay on after an exhausted working day. In this case, if they earn $8 per hour, they barely live their life because they have to pay around $40 a night already for the hotel room, which takes up to 80% of their total income.