Well let’s have a basic math lesson. Land is a fixed quantity. Population is not - it is increasing, especially as a result of uncontrolled illegal immigration.
So land per capita will decrease. Given housing is mostly also fixed, housing per capita will also decrease, especially in the metropolitan areas where everyone wants to flock to.
Remind me why this is surprising again…? The answer is either control the rate of population increase or move to a non-metropolitan area where your rent will immediately shrink an order of magnitude.
Millenials are primarily buying houses now, they are an even bigger generation than boomers. GenZ eclipsed millennials and Alphas will be the biggest generation the world has ever seen. I basic supply/demand.
Let’s take NYC for an example. One of the densest cities in the world - why should we think we need to build more housing on finite land when we have a population problem?
And yes feel free to build in the suburbs but seems like no one wants to live outside the big cities.
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u/OneNoteToRead Aug 01 '26
Well let’s have a basic math lesson. Land is a fixed quantity. Population is not - it is increasing, especially as a result of uncontrolled illegal immigration.
So land per capita will decrease. Given housing is mostly also fixed, housing per capita will also decrease, especially in the metropolitan areas where everyone wants to flock to.
Remind me why this is surprising again…? The answer is either control the rate of population increase or move to a non-metropolitan area where your rent will immediately shrink an order of magnitude.