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Real estate shortage: Metro Denver has more than 70,000 “missing households”

Deficit needs to be backfilled before housing shortfall can ease

Construction continues at a residential subdivision called Pintail Commons by Landsea Homes in Johnstown, Colorado, on June 10, 2024. Nearly a third of home purchases in Colorado involve a new home, which is at historic high for the state. Pintail is pricing its homes at some of the lowest prices along the northern Front Range. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Construction continues at a residential subdivision called Pintail Commons by Landsea Homes in Johnstown, Colorado, on June 10, 2024. Nearly a third of home purchases in Colorado involve a new home, which is at historic high for the state. Pintail is pricing its homes at some of the lowest prices along the northern Front Range. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8: Aldo Svaldi - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | asvaldi@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Even if population growth in metro Denver came to a screeching halt, the region would still need to add tens of thousands of new homes to cover a deficit that built up after a decade of under construction, according to an analysis from Zillow.
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