Population growth and housing demand are major drivers of home prices. When demand for housing grows faster than the available supply, prices tend to rise because housing becomes relatively scarce. Many large cities have higher population densities and attract more residents, creating greater competition among buyers and putting upward pressure on prices. This trend is increasingly affecting parts of the Southeast as states like South Carolina attract new residents due to relatively affordable housing. However, if population growth continues and housing construction doesn't keep pace, housing costs are likely to increase over time. That's why even a conservative state like South Carolina can experience rising home prices as demand grows.
It seems like in the cheapest areas of USA you can decide where the Property lines are just by sticking a pole in the ground and there are Trump signs 🪧 . But in places like California for example it might be 1.3 million for a 5000 square-foot lot.
Doom and gloom. Cities make people depressed. The lack of access to open space is a key factor in mental health outcomes. Depressed people are more likely to feel helpless and try to find a cause to exert control over. Compound that with the anti-growth / environmental codes and labor laws they enact that drive up the price of everything.
Why is housing most expensive in liberal areas and dirt cheap in other areas?
Big metro areas with a lot of jobs are mostly liberal.
Podunk places with farmers and a lot of nothing are Trumpland for the most part. But rural areas facing housing issues as well as nobody wants stuff build.
Exclusionary zoning drives up rents and property values. Both the IJ (right leaning) and ACLU (left leaning) have fought against this. Yet it almost never gets discussed by politicians. I think the debate questions are screened to prevent this, and candidates are in bed with developers and real estate investors.
It is best then to buy properties in liberal areas and rent them out and build enormous equity and then move to rural areas where you can do whatever you want
Doom and gloom. Cities make people depressed. The lack of access to open space is a key factor in mental health outcomes. Depressed people are more likely to feel helpless and try to find a cause to exert control over. Compound that with the anti-growth / environmental codes and labor laws they enact that drive up the price of everything.
And the adhd meds actually make libs even more depressed. Look how many downvotes you're getting.
Why is housing most expensive in liberal areas and dirt cheap in other areas?
Because, in general, the dirt cheap “other areas” are in sh!thole states or in sh!tty areas of non-sh!thole states.
A lot of cities are sh!tholes, yet they're still expensive.
A city in a sh!thole state is going to be more expensive than a small town in a nice nature area of that same state.
The real answer is supply and demand, and additionally higher incomes. When you've got a lot of people living in the same spot, space comes at a higher cost. Then when you add in higher average income in a city, everything gets more expensive, so that higher income isn't really what it seems since you're paying more for everything.
Its supply and demand. People like to pretend that housing is somehow independent of or immune to this most basic principle, but its still just supply and demand.
NIMBYs and exclusionary zoning are definitely issues, but the reason for that is that they still just artificially decrease supply causing prices go up.