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		spicyusername on March 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market I can't help but notice that data doesn't go back very far. It's a shame we can't compare to 1920, 1950 or 1970.

JumpCrisscross on March 1, 2023 [–]

> shame we can't compare to 1920, 1950 or 1970

We only started collecting information on housing in 1940 [1]. That's why household data only go back that far [2].

[1] https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/overv...

[2] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families...

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