Again, new housing mostly serves locals.
Here was my attempt to illustrate this insight for Metro Vancouver with a single animated gif image from 2022.
Good to keep getting this message out! (Rossi's 1956 classic "Why Families Move" never got enough love)
homefreesociology.com/2022/01/26/a...
As a housing demographer, I’m on the lookout for various ways to explain basic aspects of how people and housing fit together. A recurring theme is that this stuff is not obvious to most peop…
Who lives in new housing? I built this dashboard showing the share of people who moved in the past year who came from another metro, >100 miles away, etc. The main takeaway: People moving longer distances aren't attracted by new housing. Read more here: domainexpansion.substack.com/p/the-call-i...
Using Census data, I built a dashboard that shows where people come from when they move into newly-built housing. It's mostly local. New housing doesn't attract rich people to your city.
