‘I no longer qualify for the unit’: Woman tours apartment a week after finding it. She can’t believe how much rent went up in that time

Rental prices in the United States are high. According to rental data from Zillow, as reported by Anna Helhoski for NerdWallet, “Rent prices are now 30% higher than they were before the pandemic, but rental growth seems to have slowed from the major spikes of 2021. In March, rents were 3.6% higher than at the same time last year. The average growth in 2018 and 2019 was 4.1%.”

Although growth in rental prices has slowed, many renters have reported having difficulties with finding, or staying in, reasonably priced dwellings.