That's not actually all that surprising. It's good money for the purchaser.
More like they're discovering that they don't stay there. Remember, violent crime in Cities has actually almost reached that seen in Suburbs and rural areas, plus they mostly victimize each other.
With the crime problems 'fixed' and the environment in cities livable again, the upper-middle class types are moving back into them in droves for the easy access to services and entertainment(well, their entertainment). This is causing prices to spike in cities, driving the poorer types out. This is also known as 'gentrification'. You can find the next area to be 'gentrified', oddly enough, by looking at where poor artists and gay men are moving into.
They move in where it's cheap enough for them to afford it, then 'culture up' the place, causing the preppies to move in.
HUD is actually the cause of at least some of the problem - doing stuff like defining a neighborhood as 'unstable' and thus not worth subsidizing on the basis of whether it has any black families living there. This would mean that if even a black doctor moved into a 'white' neighborhood the property values would plummet.
Not in my area. Crime rates in the city are an order of magnitude higher.
The city of Milwaukee proper has a pouplation about equal to the sum of the conservative munucipalities that surround it. The murder toll for the year in milwaukee is 88 as of yesterday, with approximately a total of 5 murders in the surrounding communities- mostly commited by transplants from milwaukee.
There is very little gentrification in the city, a few attemattattempts in a few areas have been tried, but the whites are always driven back out by crime, if anything, blight is spreading into new areas.
For decades, dems have offered much more lucrative welfare benefits than illinois to draw in more 'diversity' milwaukee git the worst of the worst from chicago, beloit, across the border from Rockford has become a crime ridden hellhole.
Now that the left has once again written checks they cannot cash, they are trying to divest tgemselves of the concentrated blight they caused, mire cynucalky, they've weaponized generational poverty and are exporting it to their conservative neighbors.
Sheboygan, Wi, is a very blue collar, semi-conservative city of about 60,000. I lived there about 15 years ago and crime was almost non-existant. Right now they have problems with drugs and prostitution brought in through this forced diversification.
people like my ex-FIL who had 'affordable' rental properties sold them off because the beighbirhoids went to pot and the only tenents he coukd get were junkues, hustlers and people in and out if jail. He couldn't be choosy about renters for fear if discrimination lawsuits.