RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina is in an affordable housing crisis.

According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, North Carolina has a shortage of 190,910 affordable rental homes available for low income renters.

The price of rent has also skyrocketed over the years.

In 2010, the average rent for a 956 square foot apartment in Raleigh was $800, now it is $1,258. That is roughly a 57% increase. Meanwhile, the state’s minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2008.

“There is absolutely nothing available in our price range,” said Randall Cervasio, who has been searching for an apartment for his family.

He currently lives in a three bedroom apartment with his mother and grandmother. They pay roughly $1,650 a month but are past due are rent and have been evicted.

Cervasio’s grandmother, Anna Marie Thomas, receives social security, and his mother, Dawn Cervasio, works as a cashier at Walmart.

“I’m making what a teenager is making and I’m trying to figure out how to get all the bills paid, how to pay rent, how to pay the water bill, it’s just all too much,” said Dawn Cervasio.

North Carolina is not alone. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, there is not a single state in the U.S. that has an adequate supply of affordable housing available for the lowest income renters.

In total, there is a shortage of 6.8 million rental affordable rental homes available across the entire United States.