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In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending February 18th, 2023... a double dose of inflation data, why investors might save the day for the housing market, and what remote workers are worried about this winter.   Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.   Economic News   We begin with economic news from this past week. The government released “two” inflation reports, that show we’re not making as much progress as we’d like in taming those high prices. The Consumer Price Index or CPI shows that the cost of living was up .5% in January, with a slight drop in the annual rate from 6.5% to 6.4%. The core rate, which omits food and gas, was also higher than expected at .4% for January and an annual rate of 5.6%.   Most of the increase was due to higher housing costs and gas prices, and was higher than Wall Street economists expected. Rents were up .7% in January while the yearly cost for shelter jumped to a new peak of