Texas has long had a reputation as an affordable place to live, in large part because homeownership stayed within reach for the middle class.
Now the state is being walloped by the same forces that have made homes a lot less affordable in many cities previously known for reasonable prices: pandemic-era migration from California and other more expensive areas.
California to Texas was the most popular interstate relocation route in the country in 2021, according to an analysis by storage-space search site StorageCafe using Census Bureau data. During that year, about 111,000 people—about 300 a day—moved from California to Texas.
Soaring prices have left many longtime residents grumbling about the Californization of Texas.
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