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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (13212)8/25/2003 8:22:36 PM
From: MSIRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Sacramento area high school has been taken over by the neighborhood and turned into a charter school

sacbee.com

nl.newsbank.com

I follow this, having bought rental homes in the area, which have escalated multifold in value in 3 years, partly due to this improvement. This was helped by a wealthy NBA star putting together the group and donating surrounding property, as well as Starbucks donating money and putting in a coffee shop.

The teachers unions put up a ferocious fight, but are losing.

BTW, Arnie won't change things in the budget, since those require 2/3rds vote to amend the constitutional requirement to spend 1/2 state funds on education. The changes have to come from the neighborhoods fighting against bureaucracy.
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