[new_realist]

More housing decreases homelessness in the short term, but not in the long term. Humans breed and will always reproduce to fill all available habitat, like any animal.

Building more housing reduces homelessness like building more highways reduces traffic.

[n8cpdx]

This is wrong. In the west, and much of the developing world now, reproduction is below replacement rate.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/business/china-birth-rate...

[thehappypm]

There are empty cities in China and cheap empty houses all over the Midwest.

[cheriot]

People living in urban areas have fewer kids than rural families. Malthusianism has long since been debunked.