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Infertility is the physical inability to have children. Housing has no bearing on that.
You mean to say a cost of living crisis makes raising kids financially unviable? Who woulda thought. >

Haha this is exactly what I'm saying and experiencing >

I made sure to have a college degree, career, and that I was financially stable before I had kids. It’s funny how that made it a lot easier than having them before that. I also didn’t need to have any of my children aborted so it’s definitely possible. >

This is how I imagine it going. Having a safe environment and stable job/finances before having the kid. I can't see that happening now - meaning some people may chose not to have kids at all >

Yeah but that means we must make it more livable and have a higher educated population. Obviously abortion needs to be banned so we can keep the poor poor and uneducated. Who else is going to work at Walmart for terrible pay??? /s >

What are you talking about? >

Finally have own a house and my job finally pays me enough to feel safe having kids, but now I'm 34 and have fertility problems. Feel like this would have gone a lot smoother if I could have started trying in my mid-20s. >

I'm sorry to hear that. This is a horrible situation to be in. >

While it's true that stable housing is a factor in deciding to settle down and have kiddos, plenty of kids, I dare say a majority, grow up in rented places.
My wife and I have 2 daughters... and our friends with kids are proof that lots of 30-somethings have kids, but we tend to have less kids than our parents did, and we live in smaller houses because everything got so insanely unaffordable everywhere. >

This gives me hope. In the UK I don't know any kid that has grown up in a rental situation, so maybe that's why I can't visualise it. >

This is a tough issue.   Foreclosures are still generally affordable in our area.   Most people are not interested.   I wish everyone could get ahead >

Everyone says "affordable" and means something different. You'll hear people calling $175k homes "affordable," not realizing the majority of Americans make less than $50k/year. >

It's not unheard of to have a $30,000 foreclosure in our area.  The selection is not great and they generally need work.  Supplies are expensive.   There was a greater selection when we bought ours.   It has been stressful at times, but overall it's been good for us