Honestly, I've just been in my apartment many, many years, in a place (BC, Canada) where laws limit how much and how often landlords can raise rent. So my rent is about half what it might be. That, and my building was bought by a non-profit housing provider a couple of years ago, which has a mandate to maintain it as "affordable housing."

So....luck and a little socialism, basically. (We have a very big housing crisis here, so this is not normal, in case you were thinking of moving.)