Declining birth rates and house prices dropping are both things the media love to make out are terrible things.

and guess who own's the media's editorial circle?

I suppose house prices dropping are pretty terrible if you see your house only as an investment, instead of a roof over your head. I know people who would be fucked in their retirement if they house price falls, because they've gambled on their house price climbing enough to carry them through retirement.

I hope they get hurt though. Treating housing as an investment that needs to turn a profit, while people are living on the streets is fucking insane.