Surowiecki expects household formation to pick up as the recovery gains steam:
[I]t’s easy, during a crisis, to mistake a cyclical change for a permanent one, and surveys show no evidence that young Americans are more interested in living with their parents now. [Economist Gary Painter's] study of past recessions shows that, in the past forty years, household formation has slowed notably during downturns but has rebounded as the unemployment rate fell. It seems much more likely that the same will happen this time around than that American aspirations and social norms changed overnight in 2007.
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