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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on cost of living that mention housing.
7.7% of the 91 articles on cost of living also mention housing, as do 21.2% of the 33 articles on housing.
- Left-leaning4 of 44 articles
- 9.1%
- Least biased2 of 10 articles
- 20.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 37 articles
- 2.7%
Who picked it up when
Semafor mentioned it first (Oct 22, 2026, 4:55 AM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed within the hour, right-leaning outlets 33 hours later.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
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Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
7 articles mention cost of living and housing in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The New York Times | Can’t Afford a Home. Can’t Afford a Baby. Can’t Afford Life. This Is 30.The New York Times They’re trying to build middle-class lives in New York. But many 30-year-olds in the city feel worse off than their parents. Is it average adult angst? Or something more enduring? | 0.65 | |
| New York Post | America’s rent crisis is creeping up the income ladder — and middle-class households are feeling the squeezeNew York Post New Enterprise Community Partners data shows moderate-income renters facing some of the fastest-growing housing burdens. | 0.70 | |
| The Hill | What Democrats would do about Gen Z’s housing crisis if they win CongressThe Hill Generation Z wants legislation that targets affordability and housing costs. Democrats think they can do it better than Republicans. About two-thirds of young adults struggle to cover housing costs. And recent housing numbers aren’t promising, either: Single-family housing starts and building permits, a measure of future construction, fell 4.56 percent and 4 percent in September,... | 0.65 | |
| The Guardian | Milan braces for more unrest as debate intensifies over Italy’s ‘lost generation’The Guardian Protests and fringe violence expose sharp divide between marginalised and immigrant youth and those with greater prospects Martina Miccichè was filming riot police kicking and beating a teenager with batons as they dragged him along Piazza del Duomo, the central Milan square hosting its cathedral, when she was struck by a flying object, causing a deep gash and bruising near her right eye. The journalist had joined hundreds of mostly young people marching through the northern Italian city on Saturday afternoon to protest over soaring living costs and unaffordable housing, echoing the wider wave of economic discontent fuelling protests across Europe. Continue reading... | 0.35 | |
| Bloomberg | Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Taming Housing CostsBloomberg President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at bringing down housing costs in a bid to show that his administration is addressing voters’ affordability concerns in the final sprint to the midterm elections. | 0.60 | |
| NPR | How long does it take to save up for a starter home? Twice as long as it did in 2019NPR A new analysis finds that the average renter household now needs 16 years to save for a down payment and closing costs. Rising rents and other costs have consumed a growing share of household budgets. | 0.65 | |
| Semafor | Trump administration divided over housing orderSemafor The White House has grappled with how to address the cost of living ahead of the midterms. | 0.60 |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
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Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for cost of living and that keyword instead of housing, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The New York Times | 0.4% | 1 | 255 |
| The Guardian | 0.2% | 1 | 609 |
| NPR | 1.0% | 1 | 97 |
| Bloomberg | 0.3% | 1 | 320 |
| Semafor | 0.7% | 1 | 140 |
| The Hill | 0.3% | 1 | 348 |
| New York Post | 0.1% | 1 | 784 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning4 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased2 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index −2.2: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.