u/Plaid_Crotch

Interesting article in the LA Times focusing on Marin County but applicable to most high cost metros. Seniors are staying in the houses they raised their families in, going from many people to 2 or 1. As the demographics tilt to a higher and higher percentage of seniors (in Marin County people over 65 are 40% of the population), there are fewer people in the same number of houses.

“The number of people per unit has been going down,” said Eric McGhee, policy director and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It’s not necessarily an unhealthy development, we just have to understand ... we’re going to have to build more housing than the population numbers might otherwise expect.”