Austin's migrant crisis

From the blog post:

The Austin metro area leads the state not only in population growth, but in GDP and employment growth, too. Austinites have the highest incomes in Texas, while the rate of poverty has fallen to 9.5%, below both the statewide (13.7%) and national (11.1%) rates. Growth has raised the standard of living in the Austin metro area.

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But by 2022, Austin had become the least affordable housing market in Texas. The Austin growth machine made the city a highly desirable place to live—but the city’s Orwellian land development code, last rewritten in 1984, made sure there weren’t enough places for people to live and priced out the weirdos. Rules like minimum lot size requirements, single-family zoning, and height restrictions limited densification in the urban core and suppressed the construction of some 82,000 homes. Thanks to the work of local advocates and a pro-housing City Council, Austin has recently enacted major reforms that will make it easier to build a wider variety of homes, easing displacement pressure.

But critics argue that none of these changes would have been necessary if not for the influx of new residents.

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While California has sent a large number of people to Austin over the years, there’s one state that’s sent five times as many folks, one state that deserves to have all the blame for ruining Austin placed at its cowboy-boot-covered feet.

I’m talking, of course, about Texas.