Jimmy McMillan, running for governor as the candidate of the one-man Rent Is Too Damn High Party, stole the show at the debate on Monday night with his repeated and crystal-clear message: The. Rent. Is. Too. Damn. High.

But how high, exactly, is too damn high for Mr. McMillan? That is a little harder to say.

Mr. McMillan said in an interview on Tuesday that for at least the last decade, he had lived rent free.