housing bubble related to education
It occurred to me that education funding could be significantly impacted by a housing market crash, since as property values go down, so would property taxes which are a significant source of school district funding.
I imagine that this would hit inner city urban neighborhoods a lot more than wealthy suburban neighborhoods.
Here in SoCal, small one bedroom houses in Compton and East LA have been going for half a mil. There true value is probably somewhere around 100K.
Disclaimer: OK, compton houses might not have quite gone for 500K, but they were fetching 400K for pretty damm small houses, but for an example of what I was talking about see...
Real Homes of Genius
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Half a mil for a one bedroom house? That's worse than NYC.
Why would anyone even build a one bedroom house?
Just saw this post - I had same thought: http://www.dehavillandassociates.com/2007/09/school-funding-crunch-part-4.html.
Brett
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