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Post6:00 PM - Today#1376

I'd also point out that while Slay won the challenge in the mid-2000s, it was revealed to be completely false in 2010. The city doesn't necessarily have a great history with challenging.

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Post6:32 PM - Today#1377

Or did STL just stop challenging? The challenge doesn't rewrite Census methodology. They'll make the same miscalculation every year and every decade unless someone is there to challenge. It doesn't make sense for every city but for STL, probably best to have a department and university partnership that can challenge every census and annual estimate. Since these estimates drive federal funding it could payoff rather quickly. 

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pattimagee wrote:
soulardx wrote:
3:22 PM - Today
dbInSouthCity wrote:
2:35 PM - Today
And in the same time frame the city added 5,000
Housing units and number of vacant units went down.   We’re in the 290s still
Denis, I largely respect your data analysis and you've beaten this housing units drum for years.... yet it's never gained steam anywhere other than here and when you tweet about it (and then RT yourself).

Why?

I'm not saying you are wrong and want to believe you are correct but if it's so clear to you, why no one else?
imo, I think its probably due to the fact that city gov probably needs ancillary data confirmation that STL City is actually and honestly at the bottom of the decreasing trend... rather than the number "just" being higher than the reported... So that you can earnestly have the adjustment made and then also begin to show a trend-line of added population in the years to follow. Imagine getting that adjustment only to have another decrease in the years to follow... takes all of the air out of the balloon.
An issue with a unit vacancy approach is that doesn’t control for the collapse in family sizes, single vs married couples living together, etc.

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