Area annual inflation has fallen steadily in the past two-and-a-half years after peaking at 9.1% in March 2022. It’s also nearly the same as a median-price one-bedroom apartment in Denver, according to ApartmentList’s October data. In the Denver region, those went up 1.4% from a year ago, just like overall inflation. These days, housing prices and rents aren’t growing as fast as they were in recent years. Last week’s What’s Working poll asked readers about what would help them forget about the high inflation of recent years?