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Originally Posted by Chisouthside
I wonder if rents prices would be a better indicator of population growth.
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I think housing production and vacancy are the most useful. With a slight adjustment for births and deaths.
Rents can be influenced by taxes, laws and general economic conditions, but people have to live somewhere, and if more houses and units are being built, then there are probably more people around.
Just going by housing, Chicago after 2010 would have recorded more downtown construction, declining demolitions, and a falling birth rate. And the safest bet based on housing production would have been a stable population.