Rents are soaring across the US – in some cities as much as 30% in just one year

Krystal Guerra, 32, was given less than a month's notice that her rent would go up by 26%, in the Coral Way neighborhood of Miami. She had already been paying half her income for rent. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Andrew Amuso, a single father of a seven-year-old child in Phoenix, Arizona, has lived in the same apartment for eight years.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, his rent was about $900 a month. Last year, it was increased by $276 a month to $1,176 a month, and he has received a lease renewal this year with another large increase, to $1,585.65 a month.