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19 Mar 2008 07:51 am

Gays And Housing Prices

The economic benefit of gay communities:

Shihe Fu estimates that a rise of one percentage point in the proportion of same-sex couples living in an area raises median house prices by 9 per cent even 10 years later, controlling for some obvious other things.

This suggests that gays improve neighborhoods; they don't just choose to live in nicer places.

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