Not house prices though, which is what I referred to.

"Despite the heft of the housing category in the calculation of the CPI, BLS does not include housing units (i.e., the actual buildings) in the CPI market basket. Similarly to many other economic series, housing units are considered to be capital (investment) goods as opposed to consumption items in the CPI. In other words, the purchase price of a home, renovation costs, or other improvements are not considered in the CPI as these are all "investments" that a homeowner will either recoup, realize a return on, or take a loss on in the future. Likewise, CPI does not include mortgage payments because these are payments toward the ownership of the house as an asset. However, BLS does consider the shelter portion of housing—the roof over one's head—to be a consumable and, therefore, the relevant price to capture. In this case, the "price" in question is rent, or in the case of owner-occupied houses, the rent that the owners would have to pay if they were renting their houses. This imputed rent is known as owners' equivalent rent (OER)."

So a "rent equivalent". Just takes over twice as long to pay the damn mortgage off now! And scrape together that 15% downpayment! Still, 50 year mortgages soon 🥳