America's 6 cheapest cities for renters

You don't have to move to the suburbs to benefit from affordable rental prices

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With the cost of housing on the rise, many Americans want to live in a city where their money will go further. Mortgage rates spiked in an already tough housing market in the last year, but renters weren't immune from price hikes either: Average rents for consumers in urban areas increased 8 percent year-over-year, per data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Becca Stanek, The Week US

Becca Stanek has worked as an editor and writer in the personal finance space since 2017. She previously served as a deputy editor and later a managing editor overseeing investing and savings content at LendingTree and as an editor at the financial startup SmartAsset, where she focused on retirement- and financial-adviser-related content. Before that, Becca was a staff writer at The Week, primarily contributing to Speed Reads.