Posted on 08/12/2024 4:37:14 PM PDT by grundle
...urban progressivism is afflicted by an inability to build. Cities in red states are building much more housing than those in blue states. In 2024, Austin, Raleigh, and Phoenix are expected to expand their apartment inventory more than five times faster than San Diego, Baltimore, or San Francisco.
One hidden effect of expensive housing is that it raises the cost of local services and creates shortages of workers willing to accept low wages in labor-intensive industries, such as child care. As a result, large urban areas have more expensive child care, even relative to their higher levels of income. A 2023 analysis by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Women’s Bureau found that infant child care devoured the highest share of family income in large urban counties. Nationwide, the average family with at least one child under the age of 5 devotes about 13 percent of family income to pay for child care. But the typical infant day-care center in San Francisco and Chicago consumes about 20 percent of a local family’s income. In Boston, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, it’s more like 30 percent. Child care is just another example of how constrained housing supply can poison parts of the economy that don’t immediately seem to have anything to do with it...
...cities in red states have managed to build houses, or better restrain child-care inflation, better than those in blue states...
The steady march of the childless city is not merely the inevitable result of declining birth rates. It’s the result of urban policy, conceived by, written by, and enacted by liberals. Progressive leaders aren’t family-hating sociopaths, but they currently preside over counties that young families are leaving. They should pride themselves instead on building places where those same families would want to stay.
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“and in a few years it is recreated in the s hole they left. AND THEY VOTE.”
Seven days a week jobs and childcare can be shared.
Week 1
Mom 1
4 days job
3 days childcare
Mom 2
4 days child care
3 days job
Week 2
Mom 2
4 days job
3 days childcare
Mom 1
4 days child care
3 days job
If the workday is 10 hours long, each mom will average 35 hours a week working on average.
Many cities in the Northeast never recovered from the riots of 1968.
Small businesses and residents fled—and never saw a reason to move back.
At the end of the day it is about social trust. Can you trust your neighbors and local officials to treat you with respect and honor and decency?
If not—you move.
Leftists have no respect for anything.
They have no honor.
They have no decency.
Progressive leaders aren’t family-hating sociopaths, but they currently preside over counties that young families are leaving.
Author stopped short of specific policies causing decline: abortion, crime, welfare state, failed education system, and unwillingness to provide safety and security.
Most people live within a few different square miles most of the time.
There’s really nothing in those square miles that can’t be duplicated cheaper in a different country.
I am...familiar with Tucson. It sucks politically. Didn’t used to be that way. The Austin of Arizona.
“They never think things through before pulling the trigger on an idea. Its a trademark of the looney left”
You are assuming they care about the result of the idea in policy terms.
All they care about is money and power. They think that through carefully and strategically on most of their policy ideas.
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