USA TODAY'S Haya El Nasser reports that The Journal of the American Planning Association is warning that the nation's housing is not equipped to handle a fast-growing population of elderly.
By 2050, it says, elderly will make up 21% of the population vs. 12% in 2000. In addition, 21% of households in 2050 will have at least one disabled resident and 7% will have at least one who cannot fully take care of himself or herself.
TAMPA - For years, Tampa Bay welcomed thousands of new residents who fueled a frenetic real estate climate and one of the fastest-growing job markets in the country.Those days seem long-gone now.
A U.S. Census report released Thursday shows population growth from 2006 to 2007 has slowed considerably for many of Florida's municipalities, including Tampa.It's a trend some economists predict will continue through 2010.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Build it and they will stay” would be wise policy with today’s growing number of elderly and disabled people who want to remain in their own homes, a new University of Florida study finds.
By planning ahead, homes built now with features that meet the needs of people who have difficulty getting around will prevent more costly retrofitting in the future and perhaps avoid the trauma of moving to a retirement home, said Stan Smith, director of UF’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research and the study’s lead author.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The bursting of Florida’s housing bubble and overall economy has also let the air out of the state’s famed population growth, which has shrunk to its lowest levels in three decades, according to the latest projections from the University of Florida.
Torrid population growth rates in Sun Belt metropolitan areas from Florida to Arizona, Nevada and California have slowed amid a severe downturn in the nation's housing market, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Census Bureau data released today.
"It's really a slowdown in places with superheated housing markets that were almost out of control in terms of their growth," says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution. "It reflects the rapid response to angst of getting financing in those areas. People are becoming much more risk-averse, much more conservative about moving."
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s population growth slowed considerably last year as the housing boom went bust, but it remained relatively strong and likely will stay that way for the next few years, the latest estimates from the University of Florida show.
The conventional wisdom is that booming growth for Florida is as sure as orange blossoms in spring and hurricanes in summer.
But some economists -- armed with fresh anecdotal evidence -- think that, at least in the short term, high insurance rates, high property taxes and heady competition from other retirement states is taking some of the wind out of the Sunshine State's sails.
At a time when the real estate industry is counting on growth to revive the sagging housing market, any slowdown could prove dangerous.
The number of new people moving to Palm Beach County has slowed dramatically, according to preliminary population estimates from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida.
Since 2000, the county's population has grown by about 25,000 people annually, county officials said Monday.
But in the past year that number has shrunk to just 6,197 people, the bureau's estimates show.
The low number is another sign that growth in Palm Beach County has nearly come to a standstill.
The Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) began making population estimates for Florida and its counties in the 1950s, formally establishing the Population Program in 1972 when BEBR received the first of a continuous series of annual contracts from the State of Florida to produce the state's official city and county population estimates.
The Population Program continues to produce Florida’s official city, county, and state population estimates each year. These estimates are used for state revenue-sharing and many other planning, budgeting, and analytical purposes. The program also produces estimates of households and average household size and projections by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin for the state and each county.
