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The Young and Restless
September 2016
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City Observatory
City Observatory is a virtual think tank, contributing original data-driven research and regular commentary on what matters to city success, focused on how building great places to live can attract, develop and harness talent to create widely shared opportunity.
City Observatory was founded with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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CityObservatory.org
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Synopsis
• Talent • Place • The new reality of economic development
• Our shortage of cities • Placemaking
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Talent
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Ed Glaeser
“At the local level, fundamentally the
most important economic
development strategy is to
attract and train smart people.”
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Education drives prosperity
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Talent
Metro San Jose Rank San Francisco
Four-year adult college attainment rate 46.6% 2nd 3rd
Four-year 25-34 year-old college attainment rate 50.9% 3rd 4th
25-34 year-old college graduate share of adult population 7.5 4th 2nd
American Community Survey, 2010-14
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Metro totals: 25-34 BA+
Metro 2000 2012 Increase Percent
San Jose 134,357 141,942 7,585 +5.6%
San Francisco 316,327 353,165 34,771 +11.4%
Census 2000 and American Community Survey
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San Jose
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Nationally: Close-in neighborhoods growing twice as fast
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Metro Close-In
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Close-in neighborhoods: 25-34 BA+
Metro 2000 2013 Increase Percent
San Jose 11,821 18,053 +6,232 +52%
San Francisco 84,425 97,403 +12,978 +15%
Census 2000 and American Community Survey
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San Jose: Share 25-34 BA+
Data: American Community Survey, Map: Michelle Thong
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San Francisco: Share 25-34 BA+
Data: American Community Survey, Map: Michelle Thong
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Better educated in the center
1990 2012
Census data, courtesy Luke Juday, University of Virginia
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Young shifting to center
1990 2012
Census data, courtesy Luke Juday, University of Virginia
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Place
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Talent now seeks placeThinking about how you will look for and choose your next job, which of the following statements best reflects your opinion? (Asked of 1,000 25-34 year old college graduates)
Look for the best job I can find. The place where it located is pretty much a
secondary consideration.
1
0% 18% 35% 53% 70%
Look for a job in a place that I would like to live
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What young talent seeks
• Dense • Diverse • Interesting • Bikeable • Walkable • Transit-served
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The new reality of economic development:The HR Department now drives business location and expansion decisions
• Where can we find lots of talented workers? • Where can we easily attract more?
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“For companies hoping to hire top talent, the simple fact is that most tech workers want to live and work in the city.” Boston GLOBE, June 2014
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Surging City Center Job GrowthJoe CortrightDillon Mahmoudi
February 2015
cityobservatory.org
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Job suburbanization reversed
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US: Job growth centralized
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For the purposes of our analysis, we divide our data into two time periods: 2002 to 2007 and 2007 to 2011. The former period coincides with the economic expansion following the 2001-02 national recession. The latter period measures from the economic peak through the trough of the Great Recession and the early part of the recovery from that downturn.
Figure 2 shows the pattern of employment growth for city centers and surrounding areas for these two time periods. For brevity, we refer
to city centers as the “core” and the remainder of the metropolitan area outside the core as the “periphery.” The core or city center is defined using our three-mile radius around the center of the central business district.
In the economic expansion of the middle part of the last decade, employment growth was much stronger in the periphery than in the urban core. In the aggregate, employment in the periphery of our 41 metropolitan areas expanded at an annual rate of 1.2 percent between 2002 and 2007.
Figure 2: Core and Periphery Job Growth, 2002-07 and 2007-11
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0.6%
0.4%
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City Center City CenterPeriphery Periphery
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“Core Values”Since 2010, nearly 500 companies expanded or relocated downtown
Reasons:
• “Attract & retain talented workers”
• Build brand & company culture
• Support creative collaboration
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Where do companies relocate to:
10Core Values
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Cities of all sizesOur survey focused primarily on the country’s major metropolitan areas. As we noted in the introduction, there are likely many more moves not included in this survey that have happened in small towns, secondary markets within a given metro area, or in suburbs that are becoming more walkable.
+LZWP[L�[OLZL�SPTP[H[PVUZ��P[�PZ�JSLHY�[OH[�JVTWHUPLZ�HYL�TV]PUN�UV[�Q\Z[�[V�[OL�JV\U[Y`»Z�Ä]L�VY�[LU�SHYNLZ[�JP[PLZ��Our survey found that companies are also attracted to smaller and mid-size cities. Far from being limited to Boston or San Francisco, this trend is happening in over 100 cities in more than 85 metropolitan areas and in every region of the country. Appendix A on page 28 includes a full list of the cities to which companies moved.
WALK SCORE TRANSIT SCORE BIKE SCORE
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VC flowing to cities
San FranciscoSan JoseBoston
New YorkLos AngelesWashington
San DiegoChicagoAustinSeattle
PhiladelphiaDallas
Baltimore
Venture Capital Investment (Millions)
0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000
City/Walkable Suburb Other Suburb
Source: R. Florida, Startup City, 2014
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A shift in the Bay AreaVe
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A Shortage of Cities
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A premium for urbanity
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Urban ascendance: DC
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Growing demand for cities
Structured Finance
www.fitchratings.com August 12, 2015
Residential Mortgage / U.S.A.
U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Report Second-Quarter 2015 Update Special Report
Pace of Growth Settles In: National prices have continued to rise at a rate of approximately 3% annually, slowing to a sustainable pace after significant growth in 2013 and 2014. Early indications are again showing weakness in seasonally adjusted prices going into the summer, but Fitch Ratings views the overall economy as relatively healthy and expects continued, modest price growth for the foreseeable future.
Overvaluation Numbers Decline: With continued upward economic pressure and the pace of price growth slowing in many cities, Fitch’s Sustainable Home Price (SHP) model shows declines in overvaluation for a number of cities across the country. Compared with a year ago, 186 of the 379 cities analyzed are less overvalued, with the median city now 2% undervalued and only 12% of markets more than 10% overvalued. Still, some booming cities such as San Francisco continue to see prices skyrocket. Nationally, prices are 1.4% overvalued.
Mixed Signals from Jobs Reports: Unemployment rates continue to improve, reaching 5.3% nationally in June, the lowest levels since 2007, but labor force participation (LFP) remains weak, falling again to the lowest level since 1977. However, job growth has continued, and much of the decline in LFP can be attributed to an aging population with extended life expectancies. Still, some struggles remain, with high youth unemployment and involuntary part-time work levels keeping average wages stagnant.
Shift to City Centers: A demographic shift is underway across much of the country, with significant demand returning to city centers after years of suburban and exurban growth. Since the late 1990s, price growth in the inner rings of the largest U.S. cities has far exceeded that of cities in the aggregate. With few exceptions, this demand shift implies that city centers will continue to experience growth, even in regions lacking significant fundamental support, and are currently considered overvalued.
This change has a number of drivers and generates several long-term implications in the housing market, including the likelihood for home ownership rates to remain below their previous peaks, as more potential buyers opt to live in cities where rentals dominate. In this report, Fitch takes a deeper dive into these price differences and the long-term implications of the demand shift back to cities.
Stefan Hilts Director, U.S. Structured Finance, RMBS
This report provides analysis and updated values for the Sustainable Home Price model, a key input assumption in Fitch Ratings’ U.S. RMBS Loan Loss Model.
Related Research U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Report (First-Quarter 2015 Update) (March 2015) U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Report (Fourth-Quarter 2014 Update) (December 2014) U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Model (November 2014)
Analysts Stefan Hilts +1 212 908-9137 [email protected]
Greg Gorelik +1 212 908-0877 [email protected]
Marc Gilbert +1 212 908-0500 [email protected]
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Growing demand for cities
Structured Finance
www.fitchratings.com August 12, 2015
Residential Mortgage / U.S.A.
U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Report Second-Quarter 2015 Update Special Report
Pace of Growth Settles In: National prices have continued to rise at a rate of approximately 3% annually, slowing to a sustainable pace after significant growth in 2013 and 2014. Early indications are again showing weakness in seasonally adjusted prices going into the summer, but Fitch Ratings views the overall economy as relatively healthy and expects continued, modest price growth for the foreseeable future.
Overvaluation Numbers Decline: With continued upward economic pressure and the pace of price growth slowing in many cities, Fitch’s Sustainable Home Price (SHP) model shows declines in overvaluation for a number of cities across the country. Compared with a year ago, 186 of the 379 cities analyzed are less overvalued, with the median city now 2% undervalued and only 12% of markets more than 10% overvalued. Still, some booming cities such as San Francisco continue to see prices skyrocket. Nationally, prices are 1.4% overvalued.
Mixed Signals from Jobs Reports: Unemployment rates continue to improve, reaching 5.3% nationally in June, the lowest levels since 2007, but labor force participation (LFP) remains weak, falling again to the lowest level since 1977. However, job growth has continued, and much of the decline in LFP can be attributed to an aging population with extended life expectancies. Still, some struggles remain, with high youth unemployment and involuntary part-time work levels keeping average wages stagnant.
Shift to City Centers: A demographic shift is underway across much of the country, with significant demand returning to city centers after years of suburban and exurban growth. Since the late 1990s, price growth in the inner rings of the largest U.S. cities has far exceeded that of cities in the aggregate. With few exceptions, this demand shift implies that city centers will continue to experience growth, even in regions lacking significant fundamental support, and are currently considered overvalued.
This change has a number of drivers and generates several long-term implications in the housing market, including the likelihood for home ownership rates to remain below their previous peaks, as more potential buyers opt to live in cities where rentals dominate. In this report, Fitch takes a deeper dive into these price differences and the long-term implications of the demand shift back to cities.
Stefan Hilts Director, U.S. Structured Finance, RMBS
This report provides analysis and updated values for the Sustainable Home Price model, a key input assumption in Fitch Ratings’ U.S. RMBS Loan Loss Model.
Related Research U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Report (First-Quarter 2015 Update) (March 2015) U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Report (Fourth-Quarter 2014 Update) (December 2014) U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home Price Model (November 2014)
Analysts Stefan Hilts +1 212 908-9137 [email protected]
Greg Gorelik +1 212 908-0877 [email protected]
Marc Gilbert +1 212 908-0500 [email protected]
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Big cities dominate growth
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The latest news
September 13, 2016
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Cities lead income growth
-4.0% -2.0% 0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0%
Rural
Suburb
City
Increase in Median Income, 2014-2015
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A premium for city living
Edlund, Sviatchi & Machado, 2015
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Placemaking
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Walkable Neighborhoods
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Walkability is highly valued
Nationally, a 20-point increase in Walk Score adds $106K to a home’s value
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The Storefront Index
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The Storefront IndexSan Jose San Francisco
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Storefront businesses in core
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Boston
Portland
San Jose
Louisville
Cleveland
Kansas City
Oklahoma City
Detroit
Storefront businesses within 3 miles of CBD center
0 1,500 3,000 4,500 6,000
4114414826137571,131
1,6862,715
3,0845,777
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The Takeaway
Talent drives economies Place anchors talent Building great urban places is an essential economic strategy
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