Kansas City East Side Gentrification Restarts OR Today's Reminder That Ur Racist!!!

Like it or not, market forces are turning home buyers eastward.

Accordingly . . .

Economists will have to decide if Prez Biden is to blame but denying the impact of the current housing crisis, worsening inflation and threat of a recession is no longer an option.

Here's more bad news . . .

"The average sale price for home on the east side has climbed more than $30,000 since 2020. It now sits at $153,303, according to the KC's Regional Association of Realtors.

"'This area's prices are depressed or undervalued and that makes it easy to buy and live here, but displaces those who couldn't afford the opportunity to own in the community that they occupy,' Ajia Morris with The Greenline Initiative said.

"Morris and her husband live on the east side. They founded the Greenline Initiative.With property values going up, she worries what it will mean for renters. Morris said more than 60% of people living in east Kansas City rent."

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Developing . . .