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HiteconomyAn uptick in rent and owner's equivalent rent will provide the next round of overall price inflation, beginning in autumn 2021.
A scored prediction by Lyn Alden, made on .
Scored prediction
Hiteconomy“an uptick in rent and owner's equivalent rent appears set to provide the next round of overall price inflation”
An uptick in rent and owner's equivalent rent will provide the next round of overall price inflation, beginning in autumn 2021.
- Made on
- 2021-07-01
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
- Effect on score
- +2.76
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2022-07-01
Resolves TRUE if, from autumn 2021 through 2022-07-01, the shelter/rent components of US CPI (rent of primary residence and owners' equivalent rent) accelerated and contributed materially to a fresh rise in headline/overall inflation. FALSE if rent/OER inflation was flat or declining and did not drive a further round of price inflation over the window.
Deadline 2022-07-01 has passed. Criterion asks whether, from autumn 2021 through 2022-07-01, CPI rent/OER accelerated and contributed materially to a fresh rise in overall inflation. BLS data confirm shelter (rent + OER) began exceeding pre-pandemic levels in October 2021 and accelerated through mid-2022, with OER/rent each ~4.8-5.1% YoY by April 2022 and shelter explicitly among the drivers of the 8.5% March-2022 headline print. Evidence supports the acceleration-and-material-contribution direction; the scoring stage assigns the outcome value.
Sources
July 2021 Newsletter
lynalden.com ·
Evidence of what happened
BLS: shelter prices surpassed pre-pandemic levels by October 2021 (autumn 2021) and rose sharply through 2021 and 2022. The CPI shelter index rose 5.1% for the year ended April 2022; its two main components — owners' equivalent rent (OER) and rent of primary residence — each rose 4.8% over that year. Shelter is ~1/3 of headline CPI, so this acceleration contributed materially to overall inflation.
BLS: for the year ended March 2022 headline CPI rose 8.5% (largest 12-month gain since Dec 1981), with shelter cited among the components accounting for the gain — confirming rent/OER was a material and accelerating contributor to a fresh round of price inflation over the autumn-2021-to-mid-2022 window.
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
+2.76- How sure they sounded
- 80%
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
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Where this came from
An uptick in rent and owner's equivalent rent will provide…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2021-07-01
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