From 2001 to 2007, new-home construction outpaced household formation by more than 3 million homes.
"There was a strong link with home ownership and family formation," Robinson told the committee.
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There is substantial research which links home ownership and family formation, and in particular, the link between the shift from renting to ownership and the formation of families (Clark and Davies Withers, 2007; Mulder and Wagner, 1993, Mulder, 2006).
If new construction runs ahead of household formation, more homes sit empty and the vacancy rate rises.
As in the US, family formation, the birthrate, home ownership and small business startups are all beginning to be affected and parents will work far into old age to try to help their children.
aData adjusted for fixed effects predictors of: parent in a relationship, parent gender, biological child, family formation (heterosexual sex, home insemination, ART, surrogacy, unknown donor), relationship at conception, parent education, household income, parent age, and region, and the random effects predictor of family.
The reason we need so many extra homes is due to household formation: the elderly are living longer and, increasingly, in their own homes; relationship breakdown has created a big demand for more single-person homes; high levels of net-migration puts pressure on housing supply; we are living through something of a baby boom which increases demand for new family homes.
As a result, there continues to be decent demand for homes, assisted from firming household formation".
