Why are assets such as housing not included in inflation?
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Just FYI: Housing is indirectly used in determining things like the CPI:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-does-the-government-measure-inflation/
> If a housing unit isn’t rented but is owned by the resident, they use what is called the owners’ equivalent rent: the BLS finds what it would cost the owner to rent a similar place and uses that as the price for housing instead. Since rentals do not change frequently, the rent of each unit is sampled every six months, allowing the BLS to survey more houses overall.
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