@CosmicTraveler @FluentInFinance *Very* grim but given fertility impacts of the virus and the already-plummeting birthrate under both legislative- and reality-imposed diminished quality of life and reproductive health restrictions, not to mention that even vaccinated older folks are likely to succumb under the accelerated variant spawn of utterly unchecked spread in wider society?

With a dwindling population and spikes in the death rate across age groups, the supply-demand curve of housing may not be a problem long. But it will also have become a minor problem by comparison to staying fed and getting healthcare amid burgeoning public health burdens and a diminished supply of healthy laborers.