After reading the article it's clear that the root cause is our government causing rapid price increases, shortage of housing stock by importing niggers, and hedge funds buying up the stock. The article notes that people think renting is the answer. Wrong! The landlord simply passes his high costs to the renter. You're still paying the taxes as part of your rent. Your other costs like water/sewer and electricity are still present. You may not be paying homeowners insurance, but your landlord is and your monthly rent is amortizing that in. The government likes this because you are now going to be dependent on them and will move to a 15 minute/C40 city soon. Also these people are using high interest credit cards to finance repairs? That's very poor money management. You can't sustain that. If you're feeling "trapped", that's a feature. It's due to criminal politicians stealing your wealth and devaluing your currency and causing shortages.