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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by robocat on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:49PM (#30826587)
> but the population of the US grows by 1M people per year

If they are all 0 years old, it doesn’t affect housing until about say 20 years later. If they are all immigrants over 20 then it does immediately. Demographics matter. Population growth in 2000 was about 1%, which is a lot more than your current 1 per μ annum figure.

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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by patrickkrusiec on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:00AM (#30827010)
A better question would be to ask the rate of growth for the US adult population.
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