A study by the apartment search website RentCafe finds that more wealthy Americans are choosing to rent living spaces instead of buying them. The study’s writer, Alexandra Ciuntu, collected information from the U.S. Census Bureau. She found that the number of U.S. households earning at least $150,000 a year that chose to rent increased 175 percent between 2007 and 2017. This new kind of renter goes against the idea that Americans rent mostly because they do not have enough money to buy a home. Ciuntu told VOA by email, "Lifestyle plays an important part in their decision to rent." Business and technology centers like San Francisco, California, and Seattle, Washington, have the highest numbers of wealthy renters. In San Francisco, the number of renters grew from 21,000 in 2007 to 71,400 in 2017. That is an increase of 240 percent.
What does lifestyle mean?
a type of car
a particular way of living; the way a person lives or a group of people live
a chain of grocery stores
a type of exercise
A study by the apartment search website RentCafe finds that more wealthy Americans are choosing to rent living spaces instead of what?
looking at them
buying them
selling them
living in them
This new kind of renter goes against the idea that Americans rent mostly because they do not have enough money to buy a home.
money
shoes
children
furniture