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This is totally true about DC too, which is becoming a theme part for young, rich, childless adults:

Cities have effectively traded away their children, swapping capital for kids. College graduates descend into cities, inhale fast-casual meals, emit the fumes of overwork, get washed, and bounce to smaller cities or the suburbs by the time their kids are old enough to spell. It’s a coast-to-coast trend: In Washington, D.C., the overall population has grown more than 20 percent this century, but the number of children under the age of 18 has declined. Meanwhile, San Francisco has the lowest share of children of any of the largest 100 cities in the U.S.[/quote]

Warmed over Kotkin.

Holding down supply, making it MORE expensive, would not keep families in cities.

I mean you could tax brunch I suppose.

You COULD, as some suggested, encourage more large units.  But the number of large units, both houses and apts, occupied by roommate groups suggests that won't work - and that large units are taken by singles because there are not enough small units.
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Replacing single-family homes with condos favors childless adults over parents -- it basically tells people with kids to go somewhere else. [/quote]

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