The declining birth rate in the United States is increasingly linked to the high cost of housing, a recent report from the Institute for Family Studies indicates. The findings suggest that affordable housing could greatly influence family planning, as nearly 25% of young adults consider housing costs a significant concern compared to other factors like childcare. Advocates for increasing birth rates, including Vice President JD Vance, argue that lowering housing costs could provide the financial security necessary for families to grow, catering to traditional conservative views on family expansion.
Housing cost concerns are more influential on young adults' plans than childcare costs, work schedules, job stability, student debt, healthcare access, paid leave, desire for leisure time, personal health, or other care obligations.
Housing costs were unique in having a very large effect and being extremely common, so they explain the largest total amount of foreshortening of intentions.
Our people aren't having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us,” Vance said in 2019.
I want more babies in the United States of America.
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