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My rent doubled in less than a decade (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Quick Google for the Census Bureau only turns up median rather than mean:

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/time-series/coh-grossrents/grossrents-unadj.txt

Median is probably a better value here since it's going to reduce outlier effects.

Looks to me that median rent in most states in 1990 was closer to $300-400 per month than $500.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

$620 for California, which is where I was. I guess some parts of the country are way cheaper, even though I was in a city that was considered affordable in California.