CPRE didn't actively bomb any houses, but they prevented millions from being built.
The same logic applies here. NIMBYism → higher housing costs → higher cost of starting a family → fewer people being born.
(Demonstrably so. I think @AndrewSabisky has written about this.)https://twitter.com/ParadiseDelayed/status/970961454382895104 …
Fertility rates fall in every modernised culture, housing stock is a factor no doubt but just one among many. House building and preserving rural areas are just two opposing interests with a zero sum game, you think your side enjoys some moral supemacy though which is amusing
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They are nothing like a zero sum game. Even with a decade of 1930s building levels, only a tiny fraction of the country would be developed land.
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Assuming that's true many 'backyards' can be fine so why the hostility to nimby's, it's just a sorting process to find which 'backyards' are the least valued. New properties are great but existing owners defending their property value is bad is a contradictory take
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