10.45am GMT Renters The ONS data highlights the arrival of "Generation Rent", reports Patrick Collinson.
The cover article last Sunday, "City of Sky-High Rent," reported on how Manhattan renters were dealing with escalating costs.
Mr. Whiteman cited the high rent, reported to have been $6 million, and the added expense of running restaurants and catering with unionized employees.
She and her husband and two children are living in a one-room studio in Queens, N.Y., and they're six months behind on rent, reports NY1's Susan Jhun.
While one renter reports securing a table at a perennial East Hampton favorite, the Laundry, booking a reservation just 30 minutes earlier -- a coup "unheard of during the summer," he said -- others have reported some crowds and private events, like weddings, filling up restaurants.
Among those in the bottom 20% of the income bracket who live in private rented homes, 73% pay more than a third of their income in rent, the report said, compared with 50% of social renters and 28% of owner occupiers who do so.
"In addition to asking rent, we report on free rent periods, tenant improvement and signing rent".
But The New York Times obtained a copy of the agency's 2007 rent roll report for Mr. Rangel's building, which showed that the congressman holds the leases on Apartments 16M, 16N, 16P and 10U.
It is De Botton's contention that, "properly signposted" (whatever that may mean), the rent arrears report would stand revealed as "part of a hundred-year debate about whether welfare lends its recipients dignity … a single episode in a multi-chaptered narrative that might be called 'How Subsidy Affects Character' [or] 'The Psychology of Aid'".
