Millennials and the Working Class Are Leaving America's Expensive Cities
&gt; The affluent and the talented are flooding into superstar cities and tech hubs, creating a vicious competition for space that is pushing out the young, the less advantaged, and those who do not own homes, reinforcing the deepening class divides in our cities.<p>The author managed to jump to this conclusion without actually offering any evidence for the claim, or even entertaining other explanations of the trends seen in the data.<p>Likewise I can claim that millennials are leaving because baby boomers have rigged the housing market in their favour, saddled them with debt by hollowing-out funding for education, placed an undue tax burden on them via property tax controls, and locked-out up to 80% of the rental market in some cities via rent control, which allows older generations to avoid participating in a fair market and massively inflates prices in the remaining 20%.<p>But no, it&#x27;s talented people&#x27;s fault, apparently.<p>When the previous generation has kicked away the ladder, why are we surprised that those following them can&#x27;t climb upwards?