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Inflation does include home prices.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/04/27/update-on-housing-inflation-in-cpi/
CPI is the standard inflation measure you see in headlines.
What I think you might be getting a is a change to how housing prices were included in 1983. For homeowners, they use a method of calculating how much they would pay if they were renting their home from a landlord.
This sometimes gets misreported as housing not being included in CPI, but that's not true. This method does have its critics, to say the least. However, it doesn't seem to be absurdly off, either.
https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/why-the-government-took-home-prices-out-of-the-consumer-price-index