Living in your parents’ basement? So are lots more young adults

[FarCenter]

The Census Bureau released data yesterday that points to a significant increase in the number of "doubled-up households," which it defines as a household that includes at least one additional adult, age 18 or older, who is not enrolled in school and is not the householder, spouse or cohabiting partner of the householder.

"People may cope with challenging economic circumstances by combining households with other families or individuals. The number and percentage of doubled-up households and adults sharing households in the United States increased over the course of the recession that began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009," the Census Bureau stated in its new report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the U.S.

Specifically, the agency reports there were 19.7 million doubled-up households in spring 2007, prior to the recession. By spring 2011, the number of doubled-up households had increased by 2 million to 21.8 million. Percentage-wise, doubled-up households rose from 17% to 18.3% of U.S. households.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/living-your-parents%E2%80%99-basement-so-are-lots-mor

[ThomWV]

1. Ours "Doubled up" last week.

My son, his son, and his lady moved in with my wife and I last week.

[FarCenter]

3. One by one, it adds up to the equivalent of 500,000 new housing starts per year

2 million doubled up in 4 years. No wonder new housing construction is way down.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. How's it going?

[Avalux]

2. People did this during the Depression....

my grandparents lived with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. Their grandparents owned the home and everyone lived with them.

They lived through it, through Roosevelt and the new deal, and the strengthening of the middle class, but most of them are gone now and with them, the lessons. The younger generations don't understand how important this history is and aren't being taught about it....

How does that go? Those cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. A relevant version - those who are not told about, kept from, or lied to about the past are bound to repeat it.

The rich ruling class has never stopped trying to create a country where there will only be a bottom and a top; those at the bottom with no rights or recourse. They are very close this time to succeeding.

[whathehell]

15. Agreed.

My parents went through the Depression and taught us about it

and how FDR brought us out of it and I find I have to keep telling younger

people about it now, too.

The Boomers were probably the last generation to have "learned the lesson",

even if it was 2nd hand by then.

[Initech]

4. I'm beginning to see why the Bolsheviks revolted.

I'm getting tired of this - we're entering the Great Depression II. But this time around people just keep electing the fucking republicans, the fucking teabaggers, fucking Fox News and Koch Bros. approvved politicians - who screw us over to keep the billionaires happy - and nothing's gonna change. :argh:

[Hydra]

14. Where do they have to go?

President Obama did a horrible thing- he tapped into people's hope and trust, and then he turned around and said "And you thought I meant it? Pah-leeesss!"

This is how the people up top like it. They get what they want, and people get to pretend to have a say in the Gov't. The ones who get ground into dogmeat, though, look at choice one and choice two and say "I'm dead either way, aren't I?"

[Initech]

18. It's like George Carlin said - we're given the illusion that we have a choice. We don't.

And as I said in a different post - until we take back the *COUGH* liberal *COUGH COUGH* media from these cold hearted bastards, nothing's gonna change there either.

[Juche]

17. Same here

No matter how bad it gets, there are always 50% of the public willing to put the plutocrats back in power. What can you do? I don't know. At a time when desperation is the highest it has been in 2 generations, people keep electing politicians who want to dismantle medicare, medicaid, social security, public education, progressive taxes, etc.

I am researching how to live in a tent right now. But where do you set one up? The police will probably tell you to take it down if you do.

I wish I had been born in Scandanavia. Lucky fuckers.

[mmonk]

5. Yep. And vice versa as well.

[Mnemosyne]

6. I'm living in a camper beside my daughter's house, does that count?

:rofl::cry::rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Yes.

:-)

[HockeyMom]

9. And the REVERSE

This Grandma (not literally yet) will be living with my kids. Wished that they could have bought that house with a cottage in the back instead, but so be it.

Hell, I grew up living in a one bedroom NYC apartment with my parents, Grandma, and Great-Grandma, and well, though it was very cramped, there were benefits for me as a kid.

[FarCenter]

10. There may be benefits to extended families and multigenerational families

However, I would think that this would be one more factor in limiting labor mobility. People now have additional issues with moving to another location to pursue work.

[seabeyond]

12. as i said below in my post

how we are progressing, i am understanding this more and more thinking how it will work. i have thought of it in our situation with my elders. and i can see us doing it. and doing it in a good way. yes


that cottage would have been nice, but

this can work well too. best to you

[seabeyond]

11. i have always told my kids i am kicking them out at 18 (college, rollin eyes)

but that being out on own was so grand for me, i want my kids to be as enthusiastic as i was and enjoy the independence.

for the first time, the last couple months, i am finally saying, well you know, i understand why kids are having to. i am not liking it at all. but like a person above said, they did the same during the great depression.

[sarcasmo]

13. Three or four of these situations in my sub. The thing is the young adults in my sub are not

teens they are late 20's or early 30's with small children forced to move back home. The economic situation is more extreme than our corporate overlords are telling us.

[hfojvt]

16. I see that as a positive and would like to see it continue

I have always said that poorer people would be better off if we lived more cooperatively. It's kinda too bad that people will only do it out of necessity.

[Blue_Tires]

19. I'm movin' out once I get things together

<<<<still here 6 years later :cry: