Who's Out? Who's In? #2 In A Series - The Importance Of Starter Homes

I just ran through assessment data and picked a value of $250k as the point at which someone looking for a home would have to start these days.

North of Rock Road and East of Powerlines:
40% of the homes are less than $250k assessed value

Hillsboro Annex:
14% of the homes are less than $250k assessed value

That is a huge difference in the makeup of the two areas. Why are we being sent to Tobias and the Hillsboro Annex is going to Indian Hills?

The demographics are going in the wrong direction.

Paula Jean Park is a neighborhood of what my dad called "crackerbox" homes when he was a drywall contractor, here in the neighborhood we like to refer to them as starter homes.

When we first looked at our house in 1993, we were just happy to finally be able to afford a house.

Socio-economic Factors in 'Play'?

I was looking at the section of Hillsboro being added to the Indian Hills Boundary and noticed that the block of homes is immediately west of Hillsboro City Park & Recreation's Frances Street Park, literally across the street.

As I was looking at the images, it finally clicked on why Paula Jean Park is getting pushed out of the best elementary school in the area and these folks are getting pulled in.

Paula Jean Park has the biggest playground climbing structure in the area!



I guess they want to make sure that our kids don't get all the 'perks'. Seems like a reasonable argument but I hope we can at least have a discussion about it.