Austin is a government town where a quarter of all workers work for the government…BA is not government centric
Have you look at the bay area? I think you’d be shocked how many people work for the government.
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Texas is the center of all high school graphing calculators.
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I reality all old code construction is prohibitively expensive to replicate. Therefore it makes no sense to require builders to built BMRs . Marketing rate housing should be built with fewer zoning restrictions. And old class C apartments should be subsidized for low income tenants with section 8 vouchers.
If the article on parking was right, apartment buildings would have tons of empty parking spaces. They don’t. The parking spaces are needed.
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That one star on the Texas flag is its review rating.
But seriously though we need to build more housing in our beautiful state, so more people can enjoy our great state and not be forced to go to hell emmm I mean that one star rated state.
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Texas has 4 of the top 10 cities where folks are leaving and yet California just became 4th largest economy IN THE WORLD!!! Don’t mess with California!!!
One likely explanation is the lower home ownership rate of Millennials compared to Gen-X and Boomer at the same age bracket. From ChatGPT:
Homeownership at the same ages (US)
Age 25–34 (same age band, different years):
- Baby Boomers (age 25–34 in 1990): 45.0%
- Gen X (age 25–34 in 2000): 45.4%
- Millennials (age 25–34 in 2015): 37.0%
(So millennials were ~8–9 percentage points lower than Gen X/Boomers at the same age.)
Age 27–31 (cohort comparison):
- Millennials (age 27–31): 39.0%
- Gen X (at age 27–31): 46.8%
Age 38–42 (cohort comparison):
- Gen X (age 38–42): 59.2%
- Boomers (at age 38–42): 68.3%
Age 31–35 (2024 point-in-time gap):
- Harvard JCHS reports that in 2024, the millennial homeownership rate at age 31–35 was 3.9 percentage points below what Gen X had at the same age.
I think home ownership rate alone doesn’t explain the big gap. One defining characteristic of Dems vs Reps is how much importance one puts environmental and societal factors in a person’s success. Dems tend to look at things at the systemic level, and so tend to favor regulation to level the playing field. Reps think individual efforts are that matter, and regulations are stupid.
It just so happens it has been much harder for young people to get ahead in the last 20 or so years. Student debt, lack of affordable housing, rise of gray market gig economy, the list goes on. More young people now realize the game is rigged against them. That may explain why they are actually turning more liberal as they age. I’d think Gen-Z will hold similar pattern.
The counter trend from an electoral perspective is population growth that has slowed to almost nothing or populations actually declining. This means the average age of voters is increasing.