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Recommended MSA Change Upsets Some Arkansas Cities

Send Four Arkansas cities and their surrounding areas face demotion and possible economic repercussions if a proposed statistical change is adopted by the federal Office of Management & Budget. The OMB received the recommendation from a study committee to double the core population required for designation as a metropolitan statistical area from 50,000 to 100,000. The recommendation was publicized in January just before President Joe Biden’s inauguration and a public comment period ended in mid-March. If the population threshold is changed, current Arkansas MSAs that are based around Hot Springs, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and Texarkana would be redesignated as micropolitan statistical areas. While the Jonesboro and Texarkana MSAs have total populations of more than 100,000, the designation requires a core urban area usually a single city to be over the minimum threshold, currently at 50,000.

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Urban Reads: Are Soaring Home Prices Cause for Concern?

All the city news you can use. By Jeff Wood - Mar 13th, 2021 12:30 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Sold sign. Photo by Dave Reid. Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful. Home prices are starting to alarm policymakers: Experts say the current rise in home prices is unsustainable and are drawing comparisons to the housing bubble that led to the 2008 housing market crash and global economic recession. However, loans are stronger, regulations are tighter, and there is less of an overflow of housing stock than in those days. A price wall, rental crisis, and market stall do loom. (

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National links: Anyone remember what happened the last time housing prices boomed this much?

Skyrocketing housing prices may not be a bubble, but they’re probably not sustainable either. In pricey, dense cities, forget “missing middle” housing: think “missing large.” Long cast aside as too polluted for recreation, urban rivers are having a moment. Home prices are starting to alarm policymakers: Experts say the current rise in home prices is unsustainable and are drawing comparisons to the housing bubble that led to the 2008 housing market crash and global economic recession. However, loans are stronger, regulations are tighter, and there is less of an overflow of housing stock than in those days. A price wall, rental crisis, and market stall do loom. (Katy O’Donnell | Politico)

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144 cities, including 2 in Utah, could lose status as metro areas

144 cities, including 2 in Utah, could lose status as metro areas Utah.com By: Associated Press , FOX 13 News Posted at 10:43 PM, Mar 09, 2021 and last updated 2021-03-10 00:43:04-05 The federal government is proposing to downgrade 144 cities from the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) designation, and it could be more than just a matter of semantics. Officials in some of the affected cities worry that the change could have adverse implications for federal funding and economic development. Under the new proposal, a metro area would have to have at least 100,000 people in its core city to count as an MSA, double the 50,000-person threshold that has been in place for the past 70 years. Cities formerly designated as metros with core populations between 50,000 and 100,000 people, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, would be changed to âmicropolitanâ statistical areas instead.

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144 cities, including Lebanon and State College, could lose status as metro areas

144 cities, including Lebanon and State College, could lose status as metro areas
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