Historically, as Schnure points out that,
normal household formation would imply that 7.5 million new households should have formed since 2007.
Not exact matches
While builders have cut back drastically on home production, a more
normal rate of
household formation is needed to absorb the current glut of foreclosed and distressed homes, the report said.
It was bound to happen after an unprecedented five consecutive years of deeply suppressed
household formation — less than half the
normal rate at 500,000 new
households per year from 2007 to 2011.