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The Household Mystery

Looking back at People per Household in the '70s

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CalculatedRisk by Bill McBride
Dec 15, 2021
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Recently we’ve seen strong demand for both owner occupied and rental units. We can see this demand in rapidly rising home prices and in rents. This suggests a significant increase in household formation in 2021 (demand is increasing faster than supply).

It is no surprise that demand for homeownership has increased recently. As I noted in 2015, in the 2…

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