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Re:Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's... by logicchains on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:45AM (#43726756)
Compare the growth in GDP per capita in Japan Vs the UK, the UK isn't doing particularly better in spite of all that immigration.
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Re:Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's... by graemep on Friday April 18, 2025 @07:25AM (#43727012)
It looks to me that the Uk has done a lot better:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

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Re:Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's... by AlexSW on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:54AM (#43726804)
It's not obvious to me that comparing GDP per capita is a fair comparison when talking about one country with immigration vs one without. A lot of the immigration I believe to be not so skilled. But we needed lower-skill jobs filled too.
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Re:Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's... by graemep on Friday April 18, 2025 @07:08AM (#43726900)
its quite complicated and changes over time.

Post Brexit changes make it easier for high skilled workers and harder for low skilled. I have not idea how big the actual change has been.

There have been other events and rule changes that have had an impact - covid and Ukrainian visas.

Some interesting data here: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/mi...

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