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righthand07/31/20251 replyview on HN

It will just go back up 3% next year to match inflation. 20k apartments and the rent only lowers 3%? What a joke. Only the real estate industry is celebrating this.


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JumpCrisscross07/31/2025

> 20k apartments and the rent only lowers 3%?

20k is about 5% of Denver's housing stock [1]. Given the backlog of demand, you'd expect to see inelasticity at the entrance.

[1] http://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0820000-denver-co/