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Originally Posted by bob rulz

You can't calculate growth that way though. It doesn't account for children moving out of their parents' houses, or other people just moving out of the city, or the fact that some of the people moving into those apartments will already live in Salt Lake City. Some of them are also replacing other single-family housing units, and those people are unlikely to move into the new apartments. Also, families are probably increasingly moving out of the city, so if say a 5-person family moves out of a house, it's unlikely the new owners of the house will be a family of 5.

Sure. The 2.5 number was an attempt to include all those variables. I have no clue. Maybe 1.5 or 2 is a better number?