31 Quotes by William Frey

You see many more demonstrations and rallies where you might not have seen them 15 years ago or even five years ago.

Young people that might have stayed or might have come from other places are now going to move somewhere else.

This is really the first wave of black seniors who got established into the middle class. This is the first wave of black baby boomers who are starting to get into active adult age ... who were able to benefit from civil rights legislation and were able to get in to the middle class.

A lot of people are hedging their bets. They don't want to move away from a place where they have family they can rely on. They don't want to give up their community, their circle of friends.

There is this 'Go East' mentality in California. Even people who have lived there most of their lives, when it comes time to retire are cashing out and leaving.

There's a middle-class flight on both sides of the country.

It's a symptom of the new divide in housing costs between the expensive, congested, urbanized states such as California and New York and newly sprawling suburban states on both coasts. This whole half of the decade, housing has been an issue. ... The question is: Will it continue?

Economists always say there is a supply and demand equilibrium.

The vast majority are hanging close to home. Then there is a sign of some people really making some permanent moves away.