The Wall Street Journal’s questionable claims about falling rents in New Rochelle spread rapidly through national television, real estate publications, think tanks and housing-policy organizations. The same statistics were repeated so often that New Rochelle became a nationally celebrated housing model, even winning an award, despite fundamental questions about what the data actually demonstrated. Part III traces how the story spread, who promoted it and why newer rental figures tell a different story.
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