A new voter survey has found one-third of Nevada’s registered voters considered moving out of the state due to elevated housing costs.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports the survey, conducted April 15-21 by Noble Predictive Insights, discovered that 53% of Nevada voters consider affordable housing among their three main concerns, overtaking inflation for the first time since a January poll.
Median home prices have approached or exceeded $600,000 in some of the state’s markets. The Las Vegas median price for a single-family home last month was $480,000, with Reno priced at $605,000 and Sparks at $550,000.
The poll found only 16% of voters consider Nevada’s housing to be affordable. And while 44% still wanted to stay long-term, roughly one-third thought about moving out of state – although 45% said they would move to a more affordable part of the state, even if it resulted in having to spend up to 30 minutes commuting to work.
“Housing affordability is driving the state’s overall affordability crisis,” said Maddison Westcott-Ochal, a Las Vegas-based data analyst with Noble Predictive Insights. “Nevadans are open to doing anything — building apartments, opening federal lands, moving their families further from their communities — just to relieve these costs.”
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Many from all over the country are moving into Florida. No income tax, etc.