Earlier this fall, like so many parents of young people, I sent my son off to another year of college. He’s a straight-A student at the University of Central Florida and living off-campus for the first time. What keeps me up at night isn’t his grades. It’s his rent check.

The cost of his apartment is breathtakingly high. According to Apartments.com, average rent in Orlando — the area where I also live — is $1,580 a month. That’s slightly below the national average of $1,640 for monthly rent. Across the country, parents and students alike are being crushed by a rental market that is increasingly hostile to young people trying to live, study, and thrive.

The fact that there’s a housing crisis is nothing new to those of us who live in Central Florida — or anywhere else in the country, for t

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