Rents Surge in New York City at Double the National Rate

Rents in New York rose 33 percent between January 2021 and January 2022, according to the online listing site Apartment List, almost double the national rate and the highest increase among the 100 largest American cities tracked by the group. Image Gabbie Fried, an actor and comedy writer, is moving out of her Upper West Side apartment because she said she cannot afford an $800 a month rent increase. But the landlord told the family that it planned on raising the rent by $1,000 at the end of their yearlong lease, which Ms. Hyde, a teacher, and her husband, who managed a brewery, could not afford.

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