From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   eleeper@optonline.net  wrote:   
   > My parents' house, built in the 1950s, had a three-quarter bath off   
   > the master bedroom, and it was by no means an upscale house.  (They   
   > paid $17,500 in 1964; adjusted for inflation that would be $168,089   
   > in 2023.)   
      
   Presumably it's actually worth far more than $168,089 today, meaning   
   that the official inflation rate is an enormous underestimate.   
      
   There was an article in today's Washington Post pointing out that   
   rates of homelessness are way up, and that homeless people are no   
   longer majority mentally ill or addicted.  Most of them were just   
   squeezed out by rents increasing much faster than wages.   
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