Housing costs is included, I'm not sure where you got the impression it wasn't. And considering you thought its exclusion was "crazy," why didn't hearing that

Housing costs is included, I'm not sure where you got the impression it wasn't. And considering you thought its exclusion was "crazy," why didn't hearing that fact prompt you to investigate? https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_10 https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_1... https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm#estimation-of-price-change-for-shelter https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm#estimation-...