A record number of Americans are shelling out one-third of their income on rent right now — but apartments in these 47 cities are getting increasingly affordable

Rent remains at astronomical levels across most of the US, even though the growth of monthly payments to landlords has slowed to snail’s pace in the last nine months.

The number of Americans spending at least a third of their income on rent has never been higher, rental platform Zumper recently noted, citing a Harvard study from earlier this summer.