40 odd years ago I started my career in the real estate “industry” as a house salesman selling hundreds before burning out and moving on to “developing” real estate.
Anyway, one day I had a newly wed couple and showed them a half dozen or so homes in their price range and on the right side of the tracks. Nothing doing. So, in desperation I told them about a house in a beautiful NEW neighborhood with one home I was sure they would love. They immediately said “let’s go look”. I replied “whoa, I feel compelled to tell you that the talk around town is the subdivision is on the wrong side of town and already headed in the wrong direction demographically”. Being young liberals they said “well, we don’t mind living in a neighborhood with a lot of blacks so let’s go look”.
Long story short, they bought the house over my too strenuous warnings. 5 years later the called and said “can you sell this thing?”
I informed them I was no longer in that business but would suggest a friend. He tried and could not get an offer at any price. By that time there were a couple hundred houses in the subdivision. The young couple just moved out and years later I drove by and the whole subdivision had been bulldozed. The whole area was just open pastureland. Not a word in the local press.
My guess is there are thousands of stories out there similar to mine and this Portland story.
Not a word in the local press.
The liberal bubble must be kept inflated.