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The results from the 2020 census indicate that New York City grew by roughly 600,000 people, bringing New York City's total population to 8.8 million.
On the other hand, Los Angeles only grew by roughly 100,000 people, bringing LA's population to 3.9 million.
What happened to Los Angeles? 600,000 vs 100,000 people...what did NYC do to attract so many more people? What is LA doing wrong?
My guess is less NIMBYism in New York… they can put up a new residential tower and add thousands of new people fairly quickly, and it’s sorta par for the course for them. LA doesn’t really do that on the same scale. I could be wrong but that’s my educated guess for part of the reason why NYC was able to add so many people.
My guess is less NIMBYism in New York… they can put up a new residential tower and add thousands of new people fairly quickly, and it’s sorta par for the course for them. LA doesn’t really do that on the same scale. I could be wrong but that’s my educated guess for part of the reason why NYC was able to add so many people.
LA also has a lot of tract SFH homes. Harder to change the zoning, whereas in NYC you have swaths of land you can throw up Yuppy Fishtanks or high rises with 1,000+ beds.
I do suspect LA growth to pick up this decade with the Olympics and massive wave of development. NYC will also probably keep up this growth because Queens and Brooklyn have so much.. soo much space to build on. The Bronx is also picking up as well.
The results from the 2020 census indicate that New York City grew by roughly 600,000 people, bringing New York City's total population to 8.8 million.
What happened to Los Angeles? 600,000 vs 100,000 people...what did NYC do to attract so many more people? What is LA doing wrong?
In general, most of urban Southern California spent the last decade laying the groundwork for high-density development for the next few decades in response to the continued housing affordability crisis-- changes such as upzoning, community plan updates, transit investments, etc.
Expect significant growth in multi-family infill in the 2020s. Speaking for San Diego, the city has recently achieved multiple community plan updates that will support tens of thousands of additional units in each of these communities to allow for high-density infill and retrofitting suburban development patterns. Even smaller suburban municipalities have been actively working to support higher-density developments in their core.
Also, California's environmental laws are unfortunately used to stop urban infill, which ironically leads to suburban sprawl in the Inland Empire and central valley.
LA is lagging NYC in many areas and this is just one example. And by "lagging" I mean that LA is about 5-7 years behind in building. LA didn't really start to accelerate housing permits until 2013 and then it's a couple years before they actually get built. A 100,000 person increase sounds about right for LA by 2020 and I wouldn't have been shocked had it been 70,000. But I also would be shocked to see another 100,000 by 2023. LA has permitted about 130,000 new units in the last 7 years. If 100,000 of those actually get built by 2023, that's 200,000 more people.
These articles from all types of journalist that told us people are fleeing both cities should probably focus on other topics in the next census because it was all BS.
How can a place with a population increase = people fleeing. Even if people are fleeing it’s not fleeing if they are replaced by even more people.
These articles from all types of journalist that told us people are fleeing both cities should probably focus on other topics in the next census because it was all BS.
How can a place with a population increase = people fleeing. Even if people are fleeing it’s not fleeing if they are replaced by even more people.
1) One group of people may be leaving while another may be moving in. In LA that is probably happening.
2) Some groups of people can flee a place while others move in. It doesn’t mean no one is fleeing.
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