Pandemic Increases Importance of Affordability

Americans who moved across state lines in 2021 ended up in urban areas whose median home costs were almost $36,000, or 7.4 percent, less than the urban areas they moved from, according to Zillow. This follows a trend that began in 2020, when interstate movers ended up in areas with $29,500 lower median prices.

Prior to 2020, affordability seemed to be less important an issue. In 2018, the median prices of destination urban areas were only 0.1 percent less than origin areas, and in none of the four years before 2020 were they more than 2.0 percent.

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This will put pressure on less-affordable regions to make themselves more affordable. Of course, most of what they have been doing to address affordability–inclusionary zoning, increased subsidies to affordable housing, densification of single-family neighborhoods–won’t work. The question is how long it will take for the leaders of those expensive urban areas to realize that.

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3 Responses to Pandemic Increases Importance of Affordability

  1. JimKarlock says:

    “Of course, most of what they have been doing to address affordability–inclusionary zoning, increased subsidies to affordable housing, densification of single-family neighborhoods–won’t work. The question is how long it will take for the leaders of those expensive urban areas to realize that.”
    How long – DECADES, because these people KNOW their theories are just and right. They will just try harder until we throw the bums out.

  2. LazyReader says:

    Government subsidizes whatever they perceive to be good, taxes what they perceive to be evil

    • CapitalistRoader says:

      Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
      Ronald Reagan

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