"[A]dvanced economies are halving their populations every generation ... Naturally, everyone blames 'fertility.' As though biology suddenly went on strike sometime around 1992.
"But neither ovaries nor sperm unionised. The culprit is more prosaic—house prices. ... A new study confirmed what few were willing to admit. Housing costs explain more than half the baby drought. If housing had been more affordable in recent decades, decline in fertility would have been smaller by 51%. ...
"High house prices, it seems, are nature’s most reliable contraceptive."~ Benno Blaschke from his post 'House prices are the new birth control'
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Tuesday, 2 December 2025
"High house prices are nature’s most reliable contraceptive"
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ReplyDeleteIf around half the reduction of new-borns was house prices, what was the other half?
Why are house prices so high in your country anyway? It is bigger than the UK but it has less than a tenth of the people there.
Henry J