In the corridors of Beijing, policymakers toasted the implementation of the 2014 Two-Child Policy (TCP) to stem the tide of declining birth rates. But the popping champagne may have drowned out another sound: the swelling crescendo of the housing boom. A new study, "Do housing booms reduce fertility intentions? Evidence
Same can be said for a lot of countries with declining birth rates. South Korea also apparently has some really heated gender culture issues rn that they’ll need to resolve before a lot of their women are willing to even touch a man again, let alone have children with them.
At this point it feels like world governments are just being willfully ignorant to the actual problem because addressing cost of living issues and an environment people don’t want to bring children into is way less convenient than throwing in a small tax break and running some “look how cute kids are” ads.