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Using credit cards to pay rent: What new survey data shows

Using credit cards to pay rent: What new survey data shows
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Housing is typically thought of as a fixed, non-negotiable bill, the one expense that gets paid before anything else. New survey data suggests that for a meaningful share of Americans, it isn’t being paid outright at all. It’s being financed. In a 2026 survey of 2,000 U.S. adults with at least $1...

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