Data Points: Home Prices and Home Ownership
RealtyHop Market Health Report analyzed more than 300,000 real estate listings to calculate the...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Dec 23, 2020 | Data Points | 0
RealtyHop Market Health Report analyzed more than 300,000 real estate listings to calculate the...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Dec 21, 2020 | Data Points | 0
Between 2014-2018, the Memphis MSA population grew by about 15,000 people, according to U.S....
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Dec 4, 2020 | Data Points | 0
All data are for Memphis: Racial Breakdown of Memphis Population: In 1980: 47% African American...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Nov 23, 2020 | Data Points | 0
Thumbnail: Shelby County continues to have a net loss of population but people moving here from abroad keep the gap close between those moving in and moving out. Predictions are that Shelby County’s population is likely to grow 1% and Memphis’ is to decrease 1%, one of three lowest in the ranking of the 30 largest U.S. cities.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Sep 4, 2020 | Data Points, Poverty | 0
Thumbnail: Memphis’ neighborhood poverty continues to be the leading problem facing the city. The Economic Innovation Group summed it up in graphic terms in its May, 2020 report, The Persistence of Neighborhood Poverty – Examining the power of inertia and the rarity of neighborhood turnaround across U.S. cities. Memphis is one of six cities spotlighted in the report.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Aug 6, 2020 | Civil Rights, Data Points | 0
Thumbnail: Donald Trump’s latest dog whistle with its underlying implications about the threats to the suburbs by Black and brown people fails on the facts: people of color are making up more and more of the suburbs and life goes on.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jul 1, 2020 | Data Points, Economic Development | 0
Thumbnail: University of Memphis’ Professor Emeritus in Economics David Ciscel follows up his previous blog post about Covid-19’s impact on our economy. The May jobs and employment numbers show that idea by leadership that it would all fade in May is discredited. The next two months will be even more important.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jun 19, 2020 | Data Points, Downtown Revitalization, Economic Development | 0
Thumbnail: Young adults continue to fuel growth within three miles of U.S. central business districts, including Memphis metro, but we lag behind most cities rate of growth.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 13, 2020 | Data Points, Economic Development, Poverty | 0
In December, I published the yearly...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jan 23, 2020 | Data Points, Poverty | 0
Elena Delavega’s Memphis Poverty Fact...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Dec 16, 2019 | Data Points, Poverty | 0
In last Friday’s post, we published the...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Dec 13, 2019 | Data Points, Poverty | 1
Dr. Elena Delavega, University of Memphis Department of Social Work, publishes the must-read report each year on...
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