With rents in short supply and very high "people have come to the conclusion they might as well buy," she said.

I never knew where our rent was coming from and we were too sick from drinking to look for work.

"Too many times," he said, "I've found myself sitting around wondering where the rent was coming from."

A lack of supermarkets is often a problem in the inner city, where space and rents come at a premium.

Those whose rent comes wholly from their own pockets paid up to $1,400 a month, tenants said.

The rent for this apartment alone comes to $1,250 a month.

And it doesn't mean you don't worry that you'll be an old man worrying where the rent was coming from.

The new rents come to about $100 a room per month.

It sleeps up to eight; our rent came to $210 a night.

"I think the rents may have come full circle in the course of five years."