A New Jersey resident would need to make more than $65,000 a year, or $31.32 an hour, to afford an average two-bedroom apartment in the state, according to a report released Thursday. The rental market has become a “predatory sector of profit-making,” said Staci Berger, of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, a statewide nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing. “We know that people are suffering, and they are hurting, and it’s not right,” said Berger, the association’s president and chief executive officer. “We need housing to be a human right.” Berger’s group i…
