rent
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He earns $24 an hour, giving him just enough to split his $2,800 rent with a roommate and to cover his Taco Bell habit and an occasional Uber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Abascal was evicted after she was unable to pay a rent increase by the company that owns her flat.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
She was forced to leave the Madrid flat where she had lived after it was acquired by an investment company that sought to increase her rent by 275 percent, according to housing campaigners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
She helped pass a new cap on rent hikes in apartments built before October 1978.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Dad apologizes again and again, promising to buy Aunt Melissa a new television—right after he finds the money for rent, I guess.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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