Household Size and Shared Housing – Sacramento, CA

More Sacramento-area families crowding into shared homes, census says, By Phillip Reese and Hudson Sangree, October 18, 2012, Sacramento Bee: “Despite the fledgling economic recovery, more than 180,000 Sacramento-area residents live in homes stuffed with more than one occupant per room, a trend that has grown since the start of the recession, new U.S. Census Bureau data show. These residents are usually poor or on the precipice of poverty, caught between the vise of high rent and high unemployment and just one fragile step above homelessness…”