This article hits the nail precisely on the head. If you want families, let them have a nest.
But adding more suburbs on the outer margin of existing urban areas is a recipe for congestion, addiction to automobiles, time wasted in getting from place to place, accidental injury and death, speeding fines, falling asleep at the wheel, speed limits, massive freeways, air pollution, loneliness, children unable to find others to play with, addiction to smartphones and poor school performance. Rarely will people know the name of their nearest neighbour. These are not communities. If you want a community plan for a village where kids can walk to school and parents to work. The village needs to be surrounded by green space. You will never see skyscrapers surrounded by green space, but a village, yes.
Hi, and thanks for this great series of articles. Do you see evidence that fertility responds differently to access to homeownership versus access to affordable rental housing? If so, what mechanism explains this gap?
Very good. When I read your pieces on concrete economic factors, such as this one on housing, I wonder why you feel the need to emphasize ‘cultural’ factors elsewhere in your writing. If reproductive age people are priced out of family-sized homes, then cultural factors hardly matter. Even couples who want to start families and have many children are unable to.
This article hits the nail precisely on the head. If you want families, let them have a nest.
But adding more suburbs on the outer margin of existing urban areas is a recipe for congestion, addiction to automobiles, time wasted in getting from place to place, accidental injury and death, speeding fines, falling asleep at the wheel, speed limits, massive freeways, air pollution, loneliness, children unable to find others to play with, addiction to smartphones and poor school performance. Rarely will people know the name of their nearest neighbour. These are not communities. If you want a community plan for a village where kids can walk to school and parents to work. The village needs to be surrounded by green space. You will never see skyscrapers surrounded by green space, but a village, yes.
Hi, and thanks for this great series of articles. Do you see evidence that fertility responds differently to access to homeownership versus access to affordable rental housing? If so, what mechanism explains this gap?
Very good. When I read your pieces on concrete economic factors, such as this one on housing, I wonder why you feel the need to emphasize ‘cultural’ factors elsewhere in your writing. If reproductive age people are priced out of family-sized homes, then cultural factors hardly matter. Even couples who want to start families and have many children are unable to.
Excellent article.