{"id":14908,"date":"2015-06-07T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=14908"},"modified":"2015-06-07T13:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:56:46","slug":"washington-post-the-real-challenge-for-cities-what-happens-when-millennials-have-babies-and-the-suburbs-beckon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=14908","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post | The real challenge for cities: What happens when Millennials have babies and the suburbs beckon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/digger\/wp\/2015\/05\/08\/millennials-moved-to-the-city-whether-they-stay-might-depend-on-what-happens-to-the-kids\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Planners in D.C. and other cities have had much success luring young professionals to urban neighborhoods, so much so that a prominent question among economists and housing analysts is whether all the millennials who moved to cities will stay once they have children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Previous generations mostly moved to the suburbs, and there is evidence that many millennials also want to live in suburban single-family homes, even if they live in cities right now. Picket fence and all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In D.C., as the population grew in recent years the percentage of children dropped. In 1980, 22 percent of District residents were children. By 2010 it was 17 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at the Washington Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/digger\/wp\/2015\/05\/08\/millennials-moved-to-the-city-whether-they-stay-might-depend-on-what-happens-to-the-kids\/\">The real challenge for cities: What happens when Millennials have babies and the suburbs beckon?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Planners in D.C. and other cities have had much success luring young professionals to urban neighborhoods, so much so that a prominent question among economists and housing analysts is whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[216,452,1015,571,146,215],"class_list":["post-14908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-children","tag-millenials","tag-schools","tag-urban-land-institute","tag-urban-planning","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14917,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions\/14917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}