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by 9question1 920 days ago
This is true when housing demand is controlled entirely by how many people live in the area. However, large metro hubs like NYC and London have a larger percentage of the housing supply consumed by rich people who buy part-time housing so they have somewhere nice to crash when they visit once in a while, or so they have somewhere nice for tourists to crash where they can make money off Airbnb. In that context, net emigration does not necessarily rule out a tight housing supply.