Prices and Living Conditions
The Puzzling Divergence of Rents and User Costs, 1980 ….S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
THE PUZZLING DIVERGENCE OF RENTS AND USER COSTS,
1980–2004
by Randal Verbrugge*
Bureau of Labor … Statistics
This paper demonstrates that, in the context of U.S. housing data, rents and ex ante user costs diverge
markedly …