The rent is $850 a month, the city is Lansing, Michigan, and yes, your eyes are working just fine.
If you’ve been quietly convinced that affordable living has gone the way of the dinosaurs, Lansing is here to tap you on the shoulder and politely prove you wrong.
Let’s start with the number, because it really is the headline here.
One-bedroom apartments in Lansing, Michigan are renting for around $850 a month, and that figure is not a typo, not a scam, and not a situation where you show up and discover the apartment is actually a converted broom closet with a hot plate…