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"Suburbs where renters became the majority between 2010 and 2019 are mainly concentrated in three parts of the country: California, Florida and the Washington, D.C. metro"

https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots...

^Better headline in my opinion.

It's pretty funny that journalists take the high school/undergrad approach of essay writing (paraphrased/reworded source material). Sorta explains how we end up with odd titles like this one.

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Sadly the goal of news networks is not to convey information properly, it's to outrage or surprise you, and generate ad traffic. The more facetious a headline, the more $$$ it makes the news network from clicks. Because of this, consider all news another form of entertainment (and nothing more).

It’s like they are going for the Taboola approach to clickbait: Have a title that generates interest and don’t even bother delivering on it in the content.

Content farms do something like: “Why travelers are advised to take blank sheet of paper with them.”

Then they go on about some unrelated nonsense and never mention anything about any sheet of paper.

FYI the person who writes the article rarely writes the headline. That's the job of editors. Source: I worked as a copyeditor at a newspaper. A big part of our job was writing the headline. Back in the day it was harder because it had to fit allotted space on paper, today it's easier.

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