alt Hacker NewsThe price of housing can rise even faster than incomes.
Housing is only a part of the basket used to measure inflation. Housing's price rose faster than the weighted basket average, some other goods and services rose slower or even fell.
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woooooo • last Monday at 9:16 AM
Housing, schooling, healthcare, daycare, food.
Samsung TV purchasing power has skyrocketed, though, so there's that.
Accommodation costs are the first part of any sensible measure of inflation. If you're not factoring in housing then you're fudging the figures.