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Study: Residents left big metros for family during pandemic to 0.3% in 2019 for both metros. San Francisco also had a drop of around 0.5% last year compared to a 0.1% gain in 2019. Cece Linder was living in a “I think some core urban 770-square-foot apartment counties like Manhattan, San outside Washington, D.C., last Francisco and others may have spring when the area went into taken a bigger brunt of pandemiclockdown because of the related out-movement, as well as coronavirus pandemic. lower immigration,” said William In May 2020, after a few months Frey, a senior fellow at The of both living and working in the Brookings Institution. “Overall, it small space, Linder decided to was a year of slow growth with leave the capital area and move selective movement out of some into the 2,000-square-foot urban centers.” beachside home she jointly owns Smaller metros in the Sun Belt with her parents in Cocoa Beach, RICK BOWMER / ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE and West, several with large Florida. Now she gets to see the communities of vacation homes, sunrise over the water each Homes in suburban Salt Lake City are shown in 2019. Utah is saw the biggest population gains morning before work. one of two Western states known for rugged landscapes and last year, mostly driven by “If I’m teleworking anyway, why wide-open spaces that are bucking the trend of sluggish U.S. migration. Led by the Florida not move to this other place that population growth. The boom there and in Idaho are accomparetirement community The is more visually attractive, it’s nied by healthy economic expansion, but also concern about Villages, the metros seeing beachside, and someone can strain on infrastructure and soaring housing prices. population increases between 3% occasionally cook for me?” Linder and 4% included St. George, Utah; said. “Though that didn’t exactly able to optimize their locations, if Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; who conducted the study on work out. My mom has me Austin, Texas; and Coeur d’Alene, they have the right jobs.” migrant motivations with Daniel cooking for them.” The Census Bureau data shows Idaho. Weagley of Georgia Tech. Their Linder was not alone in her Sun Belt megalopolises, such paper has not yet been published. that the New York metro area — thinking. According to a new as Dallas, Houston and Phoenix, which was hit early by the new The data adds to study and data from the U.S. coronavirus — declined by about also grew last year, though not as understanding of how the Census Bureau, she was one of much as their smaller cousins. pandemic has changed where and 108,000 residents, or 0.5%. thousands of people who The Census Bureau data capRoughly 216,000 residents moved how Americans live. The moves migrated out of the nation’s were most common among those out of the metropolitan area, but tured changes in states, metros largest metropolitan areas and the natural increase from births with higher incomes and more into smaller ones during the and counties between July 1, and gains in international job flexibility. If the trends pandemic. 2019, and July 1, 2020. The last continue, it could have long-term migration offset the departures. The study found that, like third of that time-frame overThe New York metro area has implications for real estate Linder, many of the migrants lapped with the first three markets, tax bases and the wealth experienced decelerated growth months of the spread of the virus weren’t driven by new jobs or over the past several years, but inequality in cities, according to weather — or even a fear of the in the U.S. Population-change eslast year’s decline was a bigger researchers. virus — but a desire to be closer timates are different from the “For us, the question is, is this a bite of the Big Apple than in 2019, 2020 census, a head count of evto family and a freedom to make it when it lost 60,000 residents. temporary blip or is it going to happen because of remote ery U.S. resident that determines The nation’s next largest metro how many congressional seats continue?” Haslag said. “If workworking. Although the pattern of areas — Los Angeles and Chicago each state gets. Those numbers from-home really is going to be a people moving from larger to — also experienced greater factor in job and company smaller cities has been going on were released last week. Populapopulation declines last year decisions, and by allowing work for several years, the pandemic tion changes are estimated using compared to the previous year: exacerbated that trend, said Peter and location to be separate data on births, deaths and migradecisions, people are going to be around 0.5% last year compared Haslag of Vanderbilt University, tion. Mike Schneider ASSOCIATED PRESS
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US average mortgage rates down slightly; 30-year at 2.96% ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Mortgage rates fell slightly this week, marking their third straight week below 3% amid signs of the recovering economy’s strength. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average for the benchmark 30-year homeloan rate eased to 2.96% from 2.98% last week. At this time last year, the long-term rate was 3.26%. The rate for a 15-year loan, popular among those seeking to refinance, slipped to 2.30% from 2.31% last week. Experts are expecting mortgage rates to increase modestly in the short term, while remaining at low levels in light of the Federal Reserve’s goal of keeping its key interest rate near zero until the economy recovers from the pandemic. After its rate-setting meeting last week, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell made clear that the central bank isn’t even close to starting a pullback in its ultra-low interest rate policies. This despite the economy’s rapid strengthening, inflation showing signs of picking up and the country making progress toward defeating the viral pandemic. The latest bright news came in a government report Thursday that the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 498,000, the lowest point since the viral pandemic struck 14 months ago and a sign of the job market’s growing strength as businesses reopen and consumers step up spending. Analysts are forecasting that the government’s monthly employment report out today will show the economy added 975,000 jobs in April, and unemployment fell to 5.8%.
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