San Francisco has 80,000 more dogs than children.....

[Free-Way-Fanny]

Did you know that San Francisco has 80,000 more dogs than children? Or that singles make up half of all households in Manhattan?

The tremendous variations in housing costs from region to region are producing "two divergent Americas, one that is largely childless and has a small middle class and another that, more like pre-1990 America, still has a large middle class and children.”

Joel Kotkin of Chapman University in California argues the staggering cost of housing in urban areas is a driving force behind rising inequality.

http://www.thirdway.org/report/geographies-of-inequality

[Warpy]

1. Education, health care, and housing

Young people are getting slaughtered by all 3 of them.

Who the hell can afford marriage and kids?

[shenmue]

2. Does this mean I can marry my dog?

[LWolf]

3. Fuck the Third Way.

They want to frame housing inequalities and the middle class as suburban vs urban. They are on the attack against "high density" housing. I smell some developers who want to continue gobbling up open space, including farm land, forests, and wildlife habitats, until there are none left. Fuck that shit.

but often other policies, notably strict land-use regulation, exacerbate inequality.

Of course. The neo-liberal 3rd way doesn't like strict regulation of anything, including our media, our trade policies, our labor polices, etc., etc., etc. De-regulate and privatize. We can never seem to be rid of fucking Ronnie.

I have a better idea. Let's regulate even more. Let's regulate housing affordability in cities, instead of sending people fleeing to grow even more suburban sprawl.

[REP]

4. Women have more options now

I know many of these couples without children in the City; they don't have children because they don't want to be parents, not because of cost pressures.

Women have so many more options available today. Women used to think that having children was something that had to happen; now women know that it's really their choice. And some women have decided not to.

[uponit7771]

5. This too