Jax: A Top 25 Hottest Housing Market

[Charles Hunter]

Interesting article, but I will need to look into the various organizations cited.  The bio-blurb of the primary author is concerning:

Glenn T. Stanton is the director of global family formation studies at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, CO

Focus on the Family is a fundamentalist Christian organization whose teachings and politics are based on "six pillars" including:
"The Permanence of Marriage - to serve both the public and private good as the basic building block of human civilization. Marriage is intended by God to be a thriving, lifelong relationship between a man and a woman"
"The Value of Children - We believe that children are a heritage from God and a blessing from His hand."
"Sanctity of Human Life - from conception to natural death" and "We don’t believe that it’s wrong to prevent fertilization, but we oppose any method of so-called birth control that functions as an abortifacient (any method that acts after fertilization to end a human life by preventing implantation in the womb)."
"The Value of Male and Female" - they oppose any recognition of same-sex relationships
Above from the Focus on the Family website https://www.focusonthefamily.com/about/foundational-values/

From Wikipedia's Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family promotes creationism,[6] abstinence-only sex education,[7] adoption only by heterosexuals,[8] school prayer, and traditional gender roles. It opposes pre-marital sex, pornography, drugs, gambling, divorce, and abortion. It lobbies against LGBT rights, including LGBT adoption, LGBT parenting, and same-sex marriage.[9]

sources:
6 - Padian, Kevin (January–April 2006), "The Dover Victory", Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Berkeley, CA, 26 (1–2): 49–50, ISSN 2158-818X, archived from the original on April 20, 2015, retrieved May 6, 2014; Wallace, Tim (2007) [Originally published 2005], "Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about Evolution", The True.Origin Archive, Hergiswil, Switzerland: Tim Wallace, archived from the original on March 21, 2015, retrieved April 25, 2011.
7 - Alters, Brian (January–April 2006), "'Ties' to Canada", Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Berkeley, CA, 26 (1–2): 51–52, ISSN 2158-818X, archived from the original on April 20, 2015, retrieved May 6, 2014
8 - Focus on the Family Issue Analysts, "Our Position (Adoption)", Focus on the Family, archived from the original on December 3, 2013, retrieved April 10, 2014; Culver, Virginia (February 5, 2002), "Adoption plan stirs controversy Gays applaud doctors' stance; Focus on Family denounces it", The Denver Post; Draper, Electa, "Adoption initiative halves numbers of kids needing families", The Denver Post, archived from the original on August 12, 2014, retrieved April 10, 2014.
9 - [1] Archived April 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine SPLC on anti-gay groups.

[BridgeTroll]

No doubt the author comes at the subject from a particular perspective... but the main point that I gather is the narrative that humans are destroying the planet may be a bit of an exaggeration... humans are actually taking better care of the environment than ever before... couple that with the coming population decreases... things ain't as bad as some have you think...

[Charles Hunter]

"things ain't as some have you think" - except the author says the population decline ("cratering") he foresees will be catastrophic.  He also says of climate change "that fears of a climate apocalypse are unfounded.”  He also claims that modern agriculture produces enough food to feed 10 Billion people, compared with the world population of just under 8 Billion.  A couple of questions about this claim: 1. Does he support the massive realignment of economic systems, especially in the USA and other capitalist countries, to more equitably distribute this "overabundance" of food?  2. At what dietary level is this possible? I seriously doubt that everyone can eat at the level common in developed countries. Will people in the USA and wealthy countries have to adopt the subsistence diets common in much of the world?

[jaxlongtimer]

Urban housing prices now going up as people take a second look at cities following vaccine rollouts.  Are we seeing this in Jax?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-prices-booming-u-cities-120001312.html

Maybe you’ve heard: The pandemic is killing cities, fueling a rush to spacious houses in the suburbs. But beyond pricey New York and San Francisco, real estate demand is booming in downtowns across America.

From Pittsburgh to Detroit and Phoenix, condos and townhouses within stumbling distance of bars and restaurants are hot. Like the families now upgrading to bigger suburban homes, young white-collar workers are taking advantage of record-low mortgage rates and flexible remote-work policies to move to desirable cities with relative affordability.

Home prices in urban U.S. markets rose 15% in the three months through late January, slightly ahead of the annual pace in suburbia, according to data from brokerage Redfin, based on geographic designations developed by the Census Bureau. It’s a shift from early in the pandemic, when prices were lagging behind outer areas or even falling, a sign that Covid-19 vaccines are helping to fuel demand as nightlife makes its return....

[fieldafm]

Urban Jax is an apples to oranges comparison to NYC (where there has been an oversupply for quite a few years of higher end housing construction), where there have been pockets of price depreciation.  Frankly NYC has been the driver of a depression in 'urban' housing prices in 2020, a narrative that some lazy and/or clueless media members have pushed but isn't necessarily true.  Most of urban Chicago, San Francisco haven't really seen price drops en masse... but the marketing times of existing inventory has increased. Most urban housing pricing is still either stable or increasing nationwide.

Housing prices in Jax have continued to climb throughout the pandemic... and that's as true of 'urban' neighborhoods like San Marco, Springfield, Riverside (and even investment properties in Eastside, New Springfield and Brentwood that have been scooped up by out of town investors with shockingly low cap rates).. as it has been for the scattered for-sale inventory at Berkman, San Marco Place, Peninsula and Churchwell.

[bl8jaxnative]

https://www.noradarealestate.com/blog/san-francisco-real-estate-market/

The median price for a single-family home in San Francisco was $1,581,000 in December, down 6.9% MTM and up 9.0% YTY.