San Diego Among Fastest Growing Major US Cities: US Census (Carlsbad: condos, new house)

[RosieSD]

Guess we're not dead yet.


SAN DIEGO — The city of San Diego had the eighth largest population increase between July 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018 among cities with populations of 50,000 or more, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday.

Figures showed that during the 12-month period ending July 1, 2018, the population of “America’s Finest City” grew by 11,549 people, a near 1 percent growth from the previous year.

San Diego was the only city in California to make the top 10 for largest population gains in the latest report.

https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/05/23/...or-u-s-cities/

[RosieSD]

For those wondering, here are the 10 fastest growing large cities, based on numeric growth (actual number of people moving to the city). Note: It appears that these are just the actual cities, not the Metro areas, i.e. city of San Diego, not San Diego-Carlsbad metro statistical area.

Link to the Census bureau press release, which shows additional information, such as the cities with the biggest percentage increase (not actual numbers), is at the bottom.

1. Phoenix, AZ

2. San Antonio, TX

3. Fort Worth, TX

4. Seattle, WA

5. Charlotte, NC

6. Austin, TX

7. Jacksonville, FL

8. San Diego, CA

9. Denver, CO

10. Frisco City, TX


https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pres...estimates.html

[cruitr]

Phoenix has a huge land area: over 500 sq miles.
San Diego has 325 sq miles of buildable land. Most of which is already built.

The City of Phoenix will grow like a weed. Cheap housing, cheap nuclear power, no snow, plenty of cheap Colorado River water, and lots of bare land for new houses / condos / apts.

The Palo Verde Nuclear Plant in Phoenix provides such cheap power to residents that most homeowners see no need for solar power roof tops. What a waste of sun power.

The City of San Diego is pretty much totally built out. Try to buy a new house in San Diego. It's usually an infill project where the land had a prior purpose ie. a bowling alley.

Numbers don't lie. San Diego home prices have no where to go but up. Just watch the procession of cars on I-8 from Phoenix to San Diego during the summer months.

I am entertaining lots of old Phoenix friends this summer. All they need is a cheap place to stay and Phoenix is in their rearview mirror.

[CarawayDJ]

I didn't realize they factored homeless into their growth numbers…

On a more serious note, that's a real nice area. It doesn't surprise me. I have fond memories of my time living in Sunset Cliffs.

[cruitr]

Originally Posted by CarawayDJ

I didn't realize they factored homeless into their growth numbers…

On a more serious note, that's a real nice area. It doesn't surprise me. I have fond memories of my time living in Sunset Cliffs.

Sunset Cliffs is incredible. We rented a house there but we can't afford to buy in the area. $2M doesn't buy much in Sunset Cliffs.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by CarawayDJ

I didn't realize they factored homeless into their growth numbers…

On a more serious note, that's a real nice area. It doesn't surprise me. I have fond memories of my time living in Sunset Cliffs.

Could be asylum seekers

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by cruitr

Phoenix has a huge land area: over 500 sq miles.
San Diego has 325 sq miles of buildable land. Most of which is already built.

The City of Phoenix will grow like a weed. Cheap housing, cheap nuclear power, no snow, plenty of cheap Colorado River water, and lots of bare land for new houses / condos / apts.

The Palo Verde Nuclear Plant in Phoenix provides such cheap power to residents that most homeowners see no need for solar power roof tops. What a waste of sun power.

The City of San Diego is pretty much totally built out. Try to buy a new house in San Diego. It's usually an infill project where the land had a prior purpose ie. a bowling alley.

Numbers don't lie. San Diego home prices have no where to go but up. Just watch the procession of cars on I-8 from Phoenix to San Diego during the summer months.

I am entertaining lots of old Phoenix friends this summer. All they need is a cheap place to stay and Phoenix is in their rearview mirror.

Heh. And Seattle has 83.76 square miles. All built out. And yet ... the area is exploding with growth like no other over the past decade.

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.” - Edward Abbey

None of this is good news for San Diego ... or Seattle.

[bloom]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Could be asylum seekers

What year did your ancestors seek asylum here? Mine in the 1890's or so. I'm a fourth-generation true blooded amerikan and have sired the fifth. Does that count or not?

[TropicalExpress]

This is bad news until SD can figure out it's housing crisis. The city can start by removing bureaucratic red tape that prevents developers, you know from actually building new development. If I'm not mistaken, I think the county only gives out 10,000 new permits a year. The city values single family homes over high rises, but if they won't allow developers to start building vertically to solve the housing crises, SD will continue to deal with astronomical housing prices that continue to rise.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Jay9p1

This is bad news until SD can figure out it's housing crisis. The city can start by removing bureaucratic red tape that prevents developers, you know from actually building new development. If I'm not mistaken, I think the county only gives out 10,000 new permits a year. The city values single family homes over high rises, but if they won't allow developers to start building vertically to solve the housing crises, SD will continue to deal with astronomical housing prices that continue to rise.

And if we do allow developers to build vertically we will continue to deal with increasing congestion and gridlock.

Solution?

Fewer people ...

How ya gonna do dat?