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Cato Podcast

School Choice, Housing, and Thriving Neighborhoods

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Immigration, News, News Commentary, Peace, 424708, Markets, Government, Libertarian, Policy, Politics, Cato, Defense

4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How does the availability of school choice affect housing decisions? William Mattox of the James Madison Institute offers his thoughts.

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The degree of school choice in your community has an impact on housing decisions,

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and school choice can raise the value of areas that some homebuyers might not otherwise

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consider.

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William Maddox directs education policy at Florida's James Madison Institute, we spoke earlier

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this month.

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One thing that we don't talk about a lot on this program,

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even though we do talk about school choice a lot,

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is how school choice affects non-school choice events in the outside world.

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Some parents will make housing decisions based on where they think they can get their kids into the better public schools, the ones that have a better reputation or they feel that will meet their children's needs the best.

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