There's going to be a crash soon. Salaries aren't keeping pace with the pace at which rents are rising and a lot of those apartment complexes are going to be unoccupied soon. Not only is rent increasing, the price of everything is increasing, thereby eating into the limited savings people already have. Even if you 'own' your house, the rise in property taxes is going to severely hurt a lot of people. Once the price of gas goes through the roof due to that Russia, Ukraine war, say hello to hyperinflation when the price of everything shoots through the roof simultaneously...