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Today, we rant about rent and the housing market. Like a fun house mirror without the fun, several housing-related forces are distorting economic activity. There’s the distortive way rent inflation is measured in the headline CPI; if the BLS’s new All Tenant Rent index were used instead, the Fed would be fighting too-low inflation! … There are the forces messing with supply and demand, depressing the supply of homes for sale (Baby Boomers aren’t moving) and elevating demand for rental units. … Housing affordability has suffered as a result, with home prices up 46% just since the lockdown ended. The good news is that new rental supply is ameliorating rent inflation.