Real estate rental prices surpass income growth 

About 70 percent of the 7 million lowest-income renters in the country pay more than half of their income for housing, according to a study by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

The median asking rent increased 32.7 percent in a decade, from $734 in 1994 to $974 in 2004.

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