> will eventually drain cities of young people and those cities will be left behind
Where are they going to move to? Or are you saying that there simply won't be any young people anywhere, because they were never born?
Where are they going to move to? Or are you saying that there simply won't be any young people anywhere, because they were never born?
Or look at it this way: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...
> There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population.
If the USA was net neutral on immigration (as many people entered as left), the birth rate would be too low, there would be some tens of millions of dwelling units either empty or never having been built.
This is not an "own the libs" comment. Both policy objectives can be morally right, and still work badly with each other.
Immigration makes it much harder to fix affordable housing. That's just reality. It seems to be completely ignored by politicians, though - including those on the right, who seem to have ignored this as a club for beating up politicians on the left.
Support for both immigration and zoning reform are in no way incompatible.
Wasn't overall population growth higher back when housing was more affordable?