An analysis of home sizes in the country’s top 100 metro areas found that 26.4 percent of U.S. renters are in want of at least one extra bedroom. Using U.S. Census data, Trulia compared household size with the number of bedrooms in the home and found that across the U.S., homes are getting more and more crowded, with an increasing percentage of households having more family members than bedrooms. While the average size of the American home has ballooned over the years, renters are feeling more and more confined, especially in urban areas.
This "space crunch" is most evident in Los Angeles, where 29.2 percent of households have shared bedrooms—the highest proportion in the country. Roughly 67.9 of renters with children in L.A. were short on bedrooms. New York City is next, with 25.2 percent of households squeezed for space.
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Interesting.
Note how the median renter income is $101K, and owner income is $42K in NYC, and that ratio is roughly the same across all of the cities analyzed. Is it right to say that renters are "squeezed" for space, or are they just prioritizing other aspects of their living situation (like proximity, toniness) at the expense of it? In fact, maybe a lot of these people even want the density? Surely that differential can't be explained entirely by retirement vs. working income, since many seniors are also renting.
Might as well close the NYC Tenement Museum, as the City has become a living museum to the bad old days. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AOi4kW2VqjY/T5R9vsNlOVI/AAAAAAAACYI/aTNQvgfp_1s/s1600/Tenement+1.jpg
My adult son lives at home because there are no jobs and I'm okay with it because he has finally grown up and now realizes there is no tooth fairy,easter bunny,Santa,hope and change or black Jesus living in the white house
Agenda 21 supporters are happy now!
Growing up in Brooklyn during the depression, my father shared a room with his two brothers and their grandmother. It didn't hurt them.
>Cities are crowded
BREAKING NEWS!!!
No Thanks to AirB&B ...
Anonymous said...
"Growing up in Brooklyn during the depression, my father shared a room with his two brothers and their grandmother. It didn't hurt them."...But this is not the Depression, as a matter of fact Obama just said we're doing great. He wouldn't lie to us would he?
News flash!
Now a "senior citizen" ....I can remember the ONE BEDROOM apartment that my parents raised me and my sister in.
We had no yuppie media room for a big screen TV. Come to think of it , ours was a 16 inch black and white set,
Color? Out of the question. Now I live in an $800,000 home. Spoiled overpopulated city!
Have less babies and there won't be so much overcrowding.
Yeah...condoms are cheap. NYC even provides them free.
Really! There are official New York City condoms available...appropriately officially marked.
Dunno if I'd trust an NYC condom. It's government isn't working too well.
Anon 1.
Check the census data trulia used, they got it backwards in the graphic. 100k is the owner income in the metro area, 40k is the renter income. Just in NYC it's 86k median for homeowners,41k for renters.
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