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Last week the
New York Times ran an article about three B-list celebrities who decided to use the COVID-19 lockdowns as an opportunity to move to Austin. Why did Becca Tobin (
Glee), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (
The Sopranos), and Haylie Duff (Hilary’s older sister) pick Austin? “We liked the idea of being in a progressive city, but not necessarily something so overly populated,” Tobin told reporter Mariella Rudi, who is based in Los Angeles.
That one quote gets to the crux of Austin’s ongoing housing crisis. Folks with lots of money are moving to Austin but also don’t want the city to get any bigger. Many long-time residents don’t want the kind of density that might alleviate the supply crunch. You don’t have to be a Milton Friedman aficionado to know that this is a recipe for skyrocketing prices and inevitable displacement. In fact, median home prices in Austin have jumped by more than $100,000 from $455,000 to $566,500 in less than six months. Upper-middle-class families
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Houstonians’ views on the pandemic, the economy, racial justice and the city’s demographic transformation will be revealed in the 2021 Kinder Houston Area Survey, which will be released at an online event on May 11 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Picture of Houston and We Love Houston sign.For the second year in a row, the annual luncheon will be presented as a virtual “Lunch-Out,” due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event spotlighting the 2021 Kinder Houston Area Survey results is free to everyone who wants to participate and it will follow the same format as in previous years. Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice’s Kinder Institute and professor emeritus of sociology, and Robert Bozick, associate director of the Kinder Houston Area Survey, will present the survey findings, accompanied by brief remarks by leaders from Rice and the Houston community at large.