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minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWe are talking Kansas City. Not a general area like the Midwest. My parents home was 20k in 1975. My grandparents homes were about 10k in the same time frame. Kansas City was very cheap at the time. Yes there were more expensive homes but in the 1980’s working class families didn’t have McMansions.
minus-squareChapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year ago1975 =/= 1980. Looks like housing went up 64% in those 5 years from the data I already linked.
minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe data isn’t relevant since it’s not for the area defined. We are talking about a specific geographic area. Kansas City proper. Due to the white flight of the 70’s housing prices declined or only grew fractionally. When my grandparents died, each of their homes only sold under 20k in the late 90’s early 20’s. Comparing the price of home across the Midwest has nothing to do with the price in East Kansas City or SE where I went to school
minus-squareChapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoData instead of anecdotes?
minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt is hard to find exact numbers but if we use Missouri as a whole, the average home price in 1980 was 36K https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/time-series/coh-values/values-unadj.txt 15K per student is a lot of money in 1980 dollars.
minus-squareChapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoCurious, as the person who you were originally responding to deleted their comment. Is that per year or a one time expenditure? Also, 36k is still literally 44-80% higher than your initial claim.
minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s average. In most areas in the inner cities you could buy homes cheap. 36k was the average cost of the city.
minus-squareChapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’m disengaging.
We are talking Kansas City. Not a general area like the Midwest.
My parents home was 20k in 1975. My grandparents homes were about 10k in the same time frame.
Kansas City was very cheap at the time. Yes there were more expensive homes but in the 1980’s working class families didn’t have McMansions.
1975 =/= 1980. Looks like housing went up 64% in those 5 years from the data I already linked.
The data isn’t relevant since it’s not for the area defined. We are talking about a specific geographic area. Kansas City proper.
Due to the white flight of the 70’s housing prices declined or only grew fractionally.
When my grandparents died, each of their homes only sold under 20k in the late 90’s early 20’s.
Comparing the price of home across the Midwest has nothing to do with the price in East Kansas City or SE where I went to school
Data instead of anecdotes?
It is hard to find exact numbers but if we use Missouri as a whole, the average home price in 1980 was 36K https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/time-series/coh-values/values-unadj.txt
15K per student is a lot of money in 1980 dollars.
Curious, as the person who you were originally responding to deleted their comment. Is that per year or a one time expenditure?
Also, 36k is still literally 44-80% higher than your initial claim.
That’s average. In most areas in the inner cities you could buy homes cheap.
36k was the average cost of the city.
I’m disengaging.