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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]People were moving out of urban areas because initially that's were the largest covid outbreaks were. DC is one big city so it is hard to compare it to states that have a mixture of urban and rural areas. [/quote]
Not sure this is true. COVID may have exacerbated the trend but the trend started pre-COVID. Rate of DC population increase peaked in 2015 and has been declining steadily since. In 2019, pre-COVID, there was effectively zero population growth. In 2020 DC lost about 17,000 residents. Now in 2021, when those who moved out were supposed to have returned, DC lost even more residents, 20,000. I would not be surprised to see DC lose 25,000 residents in 2022.

It’s not a good thing for a city and instead of blaming COVID, I would hope that DC starts thinking about how to improve the quality of life in the city. [/quote]

Are real estate prices falling?  Seems a contradiction to have fewer residents but more expensive properties.[/quote]
You might want to look at household formation. A lot of houses outside the “trendy neighborhoods” barely appreciated over the past decade. Those out of the way neighborhoods are now very trendy. [/quote]

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