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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Despite be reiterated hundreds of times on this forum, that seems to be one of the most ungraspable concepts for many.
Chicago has MORE households as of 2020 than it did in 1950.
Those households just have way fewer people on average because families (especially in big cities) don't have nearly as many kids as they used to, along with the rise in single person households.
The other part of the equation here, of course, is that the geographic distribution of households within Chicago has gone through some pretty radical shifts over the past 70 years, with some neighborhoods seeing extreme drops in households, while the central area has exploded with new household growth.
"Tale of two cities" and all that shit.
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Umm... I am a human geography major, I am well aware of declining household size. This thread is about a high-rise building boom. A boom. As in a rapid increase of housing units. Not gradual increase in units or steady number of units, but a rapid increase. A boom.
And not just any boom, this thread is about a boom of a very particular type of housing: the high-rise condominium apartment. Not rental apartments, not condominium apartments in mid-rises and low-rises, not condominum or freehold townhouses, not semidetached or detached house, but strictly condominium apartments in high-rises. Even if there is very high demand for new housing, it may not in the form of high-rise condominium apartments.
I never said 25% of Chicago housing units are empty or that the amount of housing has declined by 25% or that 25% of housing in Chicago needs to be demolished. I did not even say that no more high-rise residential buildings need to be built, let alone no more mid-rise and low-rise residential. One high-rise by itself requires extremely high demand, let alone a high-rise boom. I was was questioning the amount of high-rises that need to be built, whether it is enough for a boom.
Maybe these are "ungraspable concepts" for you? Before you get angry and condescending and start talking down to people, maybe learn to actually read what other people say.