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Parent didn’t say that population dropped. He said that the state is losing more residents to domestic immigration than it’s gaining. Thus the housing issues ar
by dpark 9y ago
Parent didn’t say that population dropped. He said that the state is losing more residents to domestic immigration than it’s gaining. Thus the housing issues are not due to domestic immigrants creating too much demand.
I’m pretty certain this doesn’t actually apply to the Bay Area in isolation, though. Population there is climbing much faster than the birth rate, I’d expect.
- ericd 9y agoAccording to a similar thread I read recently, the disparity is because CA gained in foreign immigration more than it lost in domestic immigration outflows.
- gertlex 9y agoNo, parent said exactly what I quoted. Based on another comment of theirs, I think they interpreted their citation as a population drop. I replied initially because on a first read, I read it as a population drop, found it remarkable and then my gut told me that didn't seem right. I hoped to provide clarification to others of the too general statement (the part I quoted) about the cited study. Good reminder on the Bay Area not being reflective of the state as a whole (aka the broad numbers discussed above). I think it will be worth my time to poke around later and understand the population change components at a finer grain that state-wide.
- dpark 9y agoMaybe you’re right and he was indeed assuming negative domestic migration meant an actual population drop.