Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University School of Law.

Figures include subsidized, rent-regulated and market-rate housing.

Median rents in pop-up bubbles are in 2012 dollars and include the amount agreed to regardless of whether furnishings, utilities, or services are included. They also include estimated monthly electricity and heating fuel costs paid by the renter.

"Recent renters" indicate average rents of those who have newly rented in the the previous 5 years, and therefore are less likely to be in rent-regulated apartments.