> homebuilding outpaces growth of "family units"! The article literally says the exact opposite. If you're going to disregard the article's data and analysis,

> homebuilding outpaces growth of "family units"! The article literally says the exact opposite. If you're going to disregard the article's data and analysis, I think you need to show your sources so we can look at them together. It seems likely that we're getting tripped up on category definitions, though. The US population grew by over 21 million people from 2011 to 2021 while the average number of people in a US household dropped from 2.58 to 2.51, so it can't be only 5 million families in a relevant/meaningful sense. Atomicizing families that don't actually live under the same roof is disingenuous. An adult moving out of their parents' home becomes their own separate family unit for the purposes of real estate. Though if you want to talk about the steady decline of the average US household size, we can certainly do that. It seems applicable. More people total and fewer people per household does turn into needing more households.