[LenS]

First of all, birth rates drop more with prosperity and increase with poverty. Second, making immigration more difficult means that the US only grows by 35 million in the next decade instead of 40 million. Net result is still more people to house.

[narses]

Birth rates, in the US, rose throught the bull market.

[JNB]

Actually Len, untrue. In the Great Depression, birth rates in the US dropped to their lowest ever. In the 70s, the US birth rates dropped.