The family-housing boom we need

Published October 12, 2025 8:00am ET



“They don’t want to have kids because it’s too damn expensive,” the podcasters say to explain why millennials and Generation Z are having so few children.

There are plenty of reasons to doubt this simplistic explanation for our record-low birth rates.

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