New People - New Growth: We estimate that by 1970 there will be an increase in population of the entire region of some 2,000,000 people.
Because of the decreasing size of the average family, it requires more housing units than heretofore to accommodate a given number of people.
To provide for the expected increase in number of family units, we shall need by 1970 a total of 1,100,000 additional living units in the City and the 17 counties surrounding it.
This population increase with its 1,100,000 additional living units and related business, industrial, recreational and institutional facilities, will be equivalent to the creation, within this metropolitan region, of 80 new municipalities of the present size of Stamford, Conn., White Plains, N.Y., or Montclair, N.J., more than 500 square miles of new development, all within the next 25 years.
This will give you a picture of the magnitude of the problems of expansion with which we are confronted here in the New York region, and what I shall say will have application to other metropolitan areas throughout the nation. In them now live almost half of the nation’s population. They have increased two and one-half times in population since the turn of the century.