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More or Less: Behind the Stats
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The CPI-H Isn't a Good Measure of Housing Costs
CPI-H doesn't measure housing costs in a convincing way, says Andrew Sentence. It basically treats people who own their own houses as though they're renting their houses from themselves. What a house is ultimately giving you is sort of housing services such as shelter and location. Different price indexes have different proxies for those services that housing ownership give you.
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