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The problem is that most of the country wants housing to get more expensive...

You're going to have a hard time getting anything passed when a lot of people will do anything and everything to make sure housing can never get cheaper and only more expensive...

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That’s already backfiring because high housing costs drive down the birth rate.

If the next generation is smaller than the previous generation, housing prices will collapse.

It's what we're seeing in Japan I think. I never realised this second order effect, but it makes sense.

Exactly. The incentive isn't there.

It will, once children start being unable to afford to move out and end up having to live with their parents forever.

I sure hope things change

Not much of an incentive, is it? If people are having kids in their 40s, they probably won't even mind having an able-bodied adult around when they're in their 70s/80s.

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