They haven’t got a program already written to accommodate this highly unusual period!

Hmmmm… that includes mother-in-laws?

Just in time for the Housing Emergency! A little more housing data please, so solutions don’t backfire—VERY BIG— like last time.

When will their “bad luck” finally run out?

Just dumb policy or lack of forethought. Hope they don’t wait too long to figure it out.

No kidding about the beer — how could I forget that!

Most white family heritages are pretty bland. So what does English and German get you? Not the food, aside from turkey and hot dogs. No brave explorer stories or grand heroes. But after 6 gens you have 300 direct ancestors, plus 100s of cousins, aunts and uncles. We pick out 1 to brag about.

Different customs in each state. I remember when I bought my first house, in Austin, and I saw deed descriptions (including racial restrictions) that mentioned possible intensity of development 5 or 10 times our SF lot. Realtor laughed it off. They just had a very high potential ceiling.

The famed Morrow graph tells one powerful story! Wish we had it for more metros.

Here’s a practical question: is Edmonton expecting less employment growth in the coming 5 years? Local leaders often want more employment, and so the housing growth should be made to match.

Nice temporal visualization. I like the second version with the baseline for NB women.

Saw good quotes in the NYT. Births started to recover after the Great Recession but curiously started declining again in 2016. Wonder why?? Acrimony and uncertainty do not make a hopeful environment for planning babies. (Yeah, but also housing prices ran away too.) Are deferred births mostly lost?

Such a scholarly range! Gans began as an urban planner, then urban ethnographer of inner city and suburbs. Followed my sociology of the news media! Then poverty… and he kept going for a long career…. RIP

And now the number of NBA players who also have at least 1 40 point playoff game after age 40:

LeBron James

He’s got it coming and going!