Eventually, Hastings was convinced, movies would be rented even more cheaply and conveniently by streaming them over the Internet, and popular films would always be in stock.
The rents get even more expensive when the streets are pedestrianised, meaning you end up with expensive boutiques that are of no use to ordinary people.
Now rents vary even more from place to place and the government is more intent on selling social housing than building, at the same time as it complains housing benefit is "out of control".
Those who rent rather than buy face fewer financial obstacles, but renting could be even more convenient if tenants could charge the rent.
While rents may be even more dizzyingly out of reach for struggling artists in new-millennium New York, a plague no longer casts a pall over the city's creative community.
Renting is uncommon, even more so in rural areas.
The drug lords then take these exorbitant rents and build even more lavish narco-tecture in Kabul and their home provinces.
Expected to contribute the rent, she is under even more stress than Yolanda and at one point tries to sell her favors for desperately needed cash.
