I think this is the original report that the article is based on: https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data https://www.apartmentlist.com/resear

I think this is the original report that the article is based on: https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data The WSJ article seems to have concentrated on this bit from the report: "But even as rent growth has tracked that typical seasonal pattern, the winter dip this year went well beyond what we normally see. The 3.4 percent decline in rents from last August through January was the sharpest dip in the national median rent over any five-month period in the history of our estimates (starting in 2017)."