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Image 1of/27 Caption Close Image 2 of 27 Broken down to 1,2,3 and 5 bedrooms. Data via Trulia. Broken down to 1,2,3 and 5 bedrooms. Data via Trulia. Image 3 of 27 East Oakland 1-BR renting for almost $1500. Photos: Craigslist East Oakland 1-BR renting for almost $1500. Photos: Craigslist Image 4 of 27 Inside the one bedroom of the E. Oakland 1-BR. Photos: Craigslist Inside the one bedroom of the E. Oakland 1-BR. Photos: Craigslist Image 5 of 27 Image 6 of 27 Parking spot? World's saddest yard? East Oakland 1-BR. Photos: Craigslist Parking spot? World's saddest yard? East Oakland 1-BR. Photos: Craigslist Image 7 of 27 Piedmont 2 bedroom, rents for $3300 a month. Photos: Craigslist Piedmont 2 bedroom, rents for $3300 a month. Photos: Craigslist Image 8 of 27 Billed as a penthouse, the Piedmont unit. Photos: Craigslist Billed as a penthouse, the Piedmont unit. Photos: Craigslist Image 9 of 27 Piedmont kitchen. Photos: Craigslist Piedmont kitchen. Photos: Craigslist Image 10 of 27 Image 11 of 27 Piedmont bath, Photographer does not come with lease. Photos: Craigslist Piedmont bath, Photographer does not come with lease. Photos: Craigslist Image 12 of 27 One of the 2 bedrooms. Photos: Craigslist One of the 2 bedrooms. Photos: Craigslist Image 13 of 27 Piedmont bed/bath. Photos: Craigslist Piedmont bed/bath. Photos: Craigslist Image 14 of 27 Piedmont view. Photos: Craigslist Piedmont view. Photos: Craigslist Image 15 of 27 Image 16 of 27 This is a 3-BR home in West Oakland. $3295 a month. Photos: Craigslist This is a 3-BR home in West Oakland. $3295 a month. Photos: Craigslist Image 17 of 27 Inside, the kitchen looks new in West Oakland home. Photos: Craigslist Inside, the kitchen looks new in West Oakland home. Photos: Craigslist Image 18 of 27 One of the 3 bedrooms has built-ins. Photos: Craigslist One of the 3 bedrooms has built-ins. Photos: Craigslist Image 19 of 27 Yard is again, depressing. Photos: Craigslist Yard is again, depressing. Photos: Craigslist Image 20 of 27 Image 21 of 27 New and fancy in Old Oakland, a 2 bed on Jefferson commands $3020 a month. Photos: Craigslist New and fancy in Old Oakland, a 2 bed on Jefferson commands $3020 a month. Photos: Craigslist Image 22 of 27 The whimsical paint job surely worth an extra $1000 at Jefferson. Photos: Craigslist The whimsical paint job surely worth an extra $1000 at Jefferson. Photos: Craigslist Image 23 of 27 Jefferson tower. Photos: Craigslist Jefferson tower. Photos: Craigslist Image 24 of 27 Nicely staged and pricey too: Jefferson shows Old Oakland can be new, and expensive. Photos: Craigslist Nicely staged and pricey too: Jefferson shows Old Oakland can be new, and expensive. Photos: Craigslist Image 25 of 27 Image 26 of 27 Jefferson exterior. Photos: Craigslist Jefferson exterior. Photos: Craigslist Image 27 of 27 With Oakland rents at all time high, what does your money get you? 1 / 27 Back to Gallery , with an astonishing year-over-year increase of 20 percent on average.

So what does your money get you, whether you’re in the market for a one-, two- or three-bedroom?

Witness the gallery above. There’s a one-bedroom in what would have normally been a relatively “affordable area” in East Oakland, but the rent now is $1,458, plus utilities. A two-bedroom in the Piedmont/Montclair area, billed as a “penthouse” at 3300 Kempton Ave. rents for $3,300 a month, and in a nod to the business practices of renting in its westerly neighbor San Francisco, parking is extra. A three-bedroom single-family home in West Oakland, another place, we might have as recently as a year and a half ago found “affordable,” rents for $3,295. And newer construction doesn’t seem to be taking the pressure off prices: the 822 square foot apartment tower on Jefferson (aka “Historic Old Oakland”), outfitted with the sparkly new two-bed, two-bath you see in the gallery, rents for $3,020.

Oakland North reported at the end of 2015 that since 2011, “Oakland’s affordability crisis has deepened more rapidly than in any other major U.S. city.” Yet income has not kept pace: with fair market rents in Oakland nearly doubling since 2011, Oakland residents’ median income has increased by 11.3 percent. “That means the average Oakland renter now must pay an astounding 70 percent of his or her income to rent a market-rate apartment in the city.”

Logically, the pressure from San Francisco prices and rental unit scarcity have both worked to push Oakland upward, but 20 percent year-over-year is still quite a feat–as is coming up with the rent, it seems, anywhere in the Bay Area, and now that certainly includes Oakland too.

Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert