[throwawaywindev]

Only because housing cost usually isn’t included in the definition of inflation for some crazy reason. Housing costs are out of control.

[mywittyname]

Housing costs is included, I'm not sure where you got the impression it wasn't. And considering you thought its exclusion was "crazy," why didn't hearing that fact prompt you to investigate?

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_1...

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm#estimation-...