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Food and Gas Are the New Rent
But don't complain about the farmer like he's your landlord.
This costs HOW MUCH?
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Early on in the pandemic, a lot of New Yorkers got major deals on apartments. Now the landlords are striking back. Even though rats are popping out of toilets, hedgehogs are escaping through holes in walls and my own ceiling rains sewage on me (really!), the rent is still going up by percentages your paycheck can only dream about. Add a war to the mix, and you’ve got the recipe for rampant inflation, or even stagflation, the word suddenly on everybody’s lips, Mark Gilbert notes.