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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by chaostheory on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:23PM (#35239667)
If the population trends are correct, the housing problem will fix itself. The data in Japan supports that view.
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by amelius on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:39PM (#35239857)
The housing problem may be fixed but what about the care for the elderly?
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by actionfromafar on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:28PM (#35240363)
Japan said a couple of decades ago "robots". I guess it has to work out, one century or other?
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by shuckles on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:45PM (#35239919)
The housing problem in Japan's big cities did not fix itself with a shrinking population (they're growing) but instead with nationalization of land use laws.
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by andrekandre on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:36PM (#35240430) 

  > nationalization of land use laws.
interesting, any good links about that?
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by chaostheory on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @01:01PM (#35249074)
The population is not “growing”. They are simply emptying out towns for the large metros.
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by shuckles on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:30PM (#35264328)
It doesn’t matter where the urban population increase is coming from in this conversation.
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by shuckles on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:01AM (#35449945)
I am unable to reply to a different comment, but this is a good reference to zoning law in Japan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hzbhGNMp-P7lnp2-VXRjJVjDOAm....
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Re:South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons f... by Qem on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:28PM (#35240359)
> If the population trends are correct, the housing problem will fix itself.

Only if climate change doesn't reach levels where lots of coastal properties are wrecked by rising seas. IIRC a large fraction of global population live close to the coast.

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