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Comment by righthand

6 days ago

It will just go back up 3% next year to match inflation. 20k apartments and the rent only lowers 3%? What a joke. Only the real estate industry is celebrating this.

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JumpCrisscross  6 days ago

> 20k apartments and the rent only lowers 3%?

20k is about 5% of Denver's housing stock [1]. Given the backlog of demand, you'd expect to see inelasticity at the entrance.

[1] http://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0820000-denver-co/

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