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Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal by II2II on Friday September 02, 2022 @07:22AM (#32689313)
Most younger people share accommodations (e.g. have a roommate). Most older people share accommodations (e.g. have a family). There is also some, for the lack of a more sensitive word, attrition as time goes on. Yes, your family has grown and the amount of space your family needs in order to maintain their quality of life has increased. Yet it has only increased by a relatively small amount.

I am also going to echo what was said earlier: dining rooms are not a necessity. They are mainly intended for people who entertain guests. Many apartments and smaller family homes don't even include a dining room, since the expectation is that people will eat in the kitchen.

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Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal by bobthepanda on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:46AM (#32692154)
Housing supply doesn’t grow by all that much though, so a “relatively small amount” is enough to tighten a market.

In any case, censuses define a household as people living together in a unit, which would account for roommates. Portugal has gone from 3.7 in 1960 to 2.6 in 2011. Housing 10.3M people at 3.7 requires 2.8m units; 2.6 requires 4m units. And that may be just what Portuguese people have to put up with, but not their desired end state; if they were at the EU average of 2.2, then it would require 4.6m units.

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