Whether home prices in higher API areas are justified or a proxy of the demographics of the area, whether construction costs would be higher without illegal labor are certainly home related topics.
I am certainly open to buying a house in a lower API area and paying less, if it could be shown that the API does not matter. This is definitely housing related to me. I paid much more to buy a house in Poway vs. El Cajon or Mira Mesa, under the belief that test scores matter. Perhaps they don’t. I wanted to explore this belief, but regretfully, it seems some here are too easily offended.
Pretending differences in housing markets and the reasons that people pay more for certain areas don’t exist in the guise of political correctness would diminish our quest to understand the housing market.
I am now reluctant to post today’s story about an Escondido ordinance that would ban illegals from renting, because I don’t know if some people on this forum could handle it.
