If you scroll to the bottom of the article, they post their sources, including studies published in peer reviewed journals. I’m sure most of us see this headline and go, “Duh,” but here we have hard data. Every time our billionaire and political overlords wring their hands about birthrates, the collective response from all of us should be, “fuck you, pay me, or kick rocks.”
“The fertility collapse in the West is not primarily about women choosing careers over children, nor about cultural rejection of parenthood, nor about access to contraception. These factors exist, but they explain only part of the story.”
Yeah, except you can’t tell how big impact each of those factors has. Or maybe you can but this article doesn’t say it. They simply list bunch of factors and claim that housing is the most important one without providing any evidence. All they really show is that housing is a factor which I don’t think anyone sane was arguing against.