In the post-war period, the low rents and house prices attracted newly-arrived European migrants, and Newtown's population changed radically, becoming home to a sizeable migrant community.

The low rents and wide spaces attracted a new generation of young people to the area who came to live.

The relatively low rents attracted artists and students by the thousands.

But some neighbors complain that high rents are attracting too many upscale stores.

Balsall Heath's low rents also attracted a bohemian student population.

Convenience to mass transit and relatively affordable rents attracted an artistic community, some of whom converted buildings to live/work spaces.

The restaurant's success and the area's low rents attracted other ambitious chefs, making Smith Street Brooklyn's restaurant row.

In most years, the fair-market rent attracts little attention, because it inches up by a couple of percent.

Low rents for run-down bungalows attracted predominantly European immigrants (including a substantial number of Holocaust survivors) and young counterculture artists, poets, and writers.

Away from the town center, its inexpensive rents attracted working class free blacks, poor people of all races and marginalized businesses such as saloons and houses of prostitution.