What Joel Kotkin thinks about demographics
American writer on cities and demography; Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University. Executive editor of NewGeography.com until it closed at the end of 2025; author of The Human City (2016) and The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (2020); argues for suburbs and dispersed growth.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Joel Kotkin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingLow fertility rates may increase dependence on the welfare state as informal social networks weaken.
Their wordsLow fertility rates may boost dependence on the welfare state, particularly as informal networks - children, grandchildren, extended families, churches, and community organizations - weaken.