America’s housing shortage is our biggest political problem

Published November 29, 2022 12:00am ET



People are getting married less and having fewer babies than ever before. The most common excuse is it’s too expensive to raise a family.

In most ways, this argument is bogus. Millennials are just as wealthy at this point in their lives as Gen Xers were, and Gen X women managed to average about 2.1 babies each. Millennials have about 1.6 each nowadays.

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