this is completely anecdotal, but there's a pretty cool trend i notice where urban places with reasonable renter economies tend to fall into one of three categories

1) "b- to c-tier" cities that build build build build build (austin, slc, phoenix)

2) de-industrialized cities that already have the housing stock (chicago, baltimore, detroit, pittsburgh, philly, worcester)

3) struggling smallish towns and cities that leaned into building better downtowns (there's a billion of em)