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Except that with immigration you add adults and families that need housing as soon as they get into the country. Additionally the birth rate has now been below replacement rate for long enough that population would start to decrease without immigration (and the need for housing would obviously decrease with it).

I can't understand this disparaging stance against anyone who brings the issue of immigration up.

It is at the highest level on record and the only cause of increasing population but, no the only issue is that we should build more apparently. And we should also do that while saving the climate and the environment.

There are many contradictions and cognitive dissonance here... And the way my comment is shut down is very telling of that.




UK real estate issues are the same as real estate issues globally.

All the major metros have somehow become a single real estate market. London, NY, Tokyo.

The real estate properties being made are the ones which generate profit, which happen to be for people with ‘large’ amounts of wealth.

Basically - you can worry about immigrants as much as you like, there still wont be affordable housing.

It’s not profitable.

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