The person upthread said "housing costs", and that absolutely includes rents (that's primarily what I think of when I think of the "cost of housing")

The person who was directly responded to said: "Housing prices aren’t included in the inflation basket of goods."

Which is correct. What was said up thread is irrelevant. If you want to correct him for stating that as off topic or misconstruing the parent comment, that's fine. But spreading misinformation about home prices being included in CPI is not.

Again, nobody is implying "rents" when they say "housing prices".

Those are equivalent.

They are not. Rent prices and home prices are not equivalent.

Am I in some twilight zone episode here?

They are equivalent.

If an asset's income increases, the value of the asset increases.

Purchasing is less liquid than renting, so it tends to lag. And some characteristics are more amenable to renting vs other use.

But overall their trends are equivalent .

You’re completely wrong.

Asset values are not just a function of cash flow but also discount rates, growth in cash flow, and valuation multiples. Real estate cap rates have been compressing for decades, for example (same cash flow equals higher value, all else equal)

Please don’t spread misinformation in these threads

Valuation multiples is a symptom, not a cause.

Discount rates have largely to do with inflation, and comes out in the wash of asset valuation changes.

> Asset values are not just a function of cash flow but also growth in cash flow

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Price to rent ratio:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/price-to-rent-rat...

Though really, that's just a graph of inflation.