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RentCafe report: Here’s how hard it was to secure an apartment in the Pittsburgh market this year

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PITTSBURGH — New research by RentCafe provides highly specific details on just how outmatched Pittsburgh renters were this year in finding available apartments.

According to RentCafe’s 2022 Year-End report, there were 14 renters for every one available apartment in the Pittsburgh market this past year, a tabulation that included the apartment inventory for a seven-county metro region.

Pittsburgh’s apartment market might seem jarringly tight but it’s a metric which RentCafe is largely true for the entire country, with the organization reporting the 44 million American households living in rental housing this year was at the highest level in half a century.

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