$35.00/hr could buy you a decent house in town or get you a nice rental.
If you can’t actually survive on a $35.00/hr wage (assuming working more than 37.5 hrs a week), then you have some sort of a financial management problem unless there’s some money sucking side show to deal with.
I don’t disagree that rent here getting a little unbearable (better than paying $1000/mth for a bachelor room in Vancouver, right? Now that’s obscene.), but at the end of the day it’s the landlord’s possession.