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The sky-high rents are up almost 12 percent compared to the same time last year, the analysis finds. The jump in rents now beats out last year's record rents.
Cities inundated with mass immigration — New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Miami, Florida; Los Angeles, California; and Washington, D.C. — have the highest rents as thousands of new arrivals every month push up the cost of housing immensely, a boon for real estate investors and a kick in the gut for renters and first-time homeowners.
The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, for instance, has jumped almost 40 percent since the same time last year, and rent for two-bedroom apartments has increased more than 46 percent.
Comment: The food supply has taken a beating in recent years both from natural disasters, such as the increase in extreme weather events, and manmade crises, like the sanctions, lockdowns, and the soaring cost of energy and fertilisers.
Taken together with these food processing plant fires, the majority of which have been happening in the US, and particularly in the last year or so, and now with the West's brazen attack on farmers, it's reasonable to suspect that whilst incompetence plays its part, there is also an ongoing and concerted effort by some to bring about deadly food shortages: