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Re:High housing costs may be California's biggest problem by greenie_beans on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @09:52AM (#40355234)
birmingham is one city in a bigger metro area. when i speak of "birmingham" i speak of the entire metro area, which has grown in population since the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_metropolitan_area,_...

that stat you grabbed doesn't exist in a vacuum. that stat matches the same time as the white flight demographic shifts that happened in all metro areas in the south.

now do huntsville.

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Re:High housing costs may be California's biggest problem by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @02:15AM (#40363636)
Even if you take the entire metro, growth since the 1960s has been anemic. 300k growth since 1960, and it actually shrunk in 2021 according to your chart. Again, there are much better places to make money building housing, supplies and know how are limited.
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