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This is the coming housing correction. It is likely that we will decide to just depopulate undesirable areas completely. Because if you get under a threshold of density a lot of city infrastructure doesn’t make sense.

I wonder what we can learn from what is happening in Japan?

There was also an article posted here a while back noting that many American cities are too dependent on population growth to fund their infrastructure projects. They are essentially borrowing against expected growth and if that growth doesn't come, some cities could be left with a huge debt.

Probably sourced from strongtowns

Location, location, location?

This exact problem is why immigration is so heavily supported by liberals around the world. Europe has slowing birth rates, so they need large numbers of immigrants to find growth. The issue is a bit more acute there than in the US, but we will run into this sooner than later.

That's a curious take.

Source?

Conservatives love it too. At least the millionaires and billionaires do.

In this case, the term could mean economic liberalism.