Urban living can be made more appealing to families through increased educational choice and decreased cost of living, research from the Manhattan Institute finds.
America’s major cities are increasingly childless, an ongoing trend that was only exacerbated by the emergence of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In addition, spiking crime rates, increased cost of living and rising housing prices have pushed families out of U.S. metro areas, according to Manhattan Institute fellow Robert VerBruggen, who conducted a report that measured the family-friendliness of America's cities based on the data of 200 metro areas.
He also highlighted education, specifically school choice, as an important aspect of life that allows people to live where they want while also sending their kids to school somewhere they find acceptable. 'If family-size housing is expensive in big cities, so is private school,' VerBruggen wrote in the report. 'Those wanting good public schools must pay for those, too, because property values partly reflect the right to send kids to the school that the property is zoned to.
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