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Old Posted Apr 30, 2017, 7:46 AM
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Also, it's worth mentioning that many booming metros had similar population losses in the core, they just had larger city limits to mask the losses.
Even Manhattan is almost 30% below its peak residential population.

The baseline population loss in American cities due to smaller households, assuming no change in available building stock, is probably 40% or more.
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