This is very much worth reading, on race, gentrification, and education in PDX. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/tomorrows_test/2016/06/portland_s_albina_district_gentrified_its_public_school_boise_eliot_humboldt.html …
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Because the neighborhoods I can afford to buy in are different from the neighborhoods I can afford to rent in.
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in the rental market for 2BD in Bklyn, it seemed to me places with lower-rated public schools…
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…by about the amount of private school for one kid. IOW the prices reflected this issue very closely.
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I could imagine home purchases would also have school system beliefs priced in.
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where I live has very different but similarly fraught housing dynamics. I wonder if it's simple anywhere.
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