TL,DR: high housing prices delay and reduce fertility rates.
In this context, Nordic countries are not much better than the rest of the developed world (don’t like this descriptor, but I can’t come up with a better one)
That’s today, though. As an example, Sweden’s fertility rate has been around 2 since the 1930s. That article didn’t mention when housing started being such a big issue, but I assume it wasn’t the 30s and not the 50s or 80s, either.
I read this article recently and you might find it interesting as well: Commodification of housing and fertility rates
TL,DR: high housing prices delay and reduce fertility rates.
In this context, Nordic countries are not much better than the rest of the developed world (don’t like this descriptor, but I can’t come up with a better one)
That’s today, though. As an example, Sweden’s fertility rate has been around 2 since the 1930s. That article didn’t mention when housing started being such a big issue, but I assume it wasn’t the 30s and not the 50s or 80s, either.