Few families occupy Greater Boston’s multi-bedroom homes, report says
People with children often have a hard time finding a place to live, and the number of school-age children in the city has fallen.
People with children often have a hard time finding a place to live in and around Boston, perhaps because much of the housing that’s large enough to accommodate families is occupied by people without children, the Globe’s Tim Logan reports.
That’s the finding of a study set to be released Monday. According to it, less than 40 percent of three-bedroom homes in the core of Greater Boston house families with children. Residents of the rest are mostly older empty-nesters or younger groups of roommates who share a large apartment to save money.
The report comes on the heels of a Boston Foundation report last month that the number of school-age children in Boston has fallen nearly 10 percent since 2000, partly due to the high cost of housing and the tight supply.
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