Abba_S
Your theory of good schools increase/maintain home values is the one we use in local government when selling the education budget to town residents each year.
When our school rankings fall, home values lag behind those in area towns.
I’m a prime example of someone with no kids left in the schools who pushes for education funding to maintain real estate values.
The current administration of our town has cut too many corners on the education budget for 6 years. Quality is down and real estate prices have not rebounded as in neighboring towns. Last night I was at a Town Zoning commission meeting and 2 mid 30s attorneys tendered their resignations announcing they had bought homes in the next town because our schools have gone downhill. Neither has sold their current home and both expect to take losses, but their kids education comes first. These are Goyim, but Jews can do the same.
I remember in the 1970s when the topic of Federation funding for the local Chabad Day School in the New Haven area came up. It was passed because it kept white Jews in town during a period of white flight and would shore up property values. This made economic sense to non-frum Jews and millions have been allocated in the past 45+ years