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Originally Posted by hookem
You'd think so with all the buildings going up, but I remember we looked at this a couple of years ago, and the issue is that all of Austin's urban core housing is quite expensive.. so the units are occupied by single professionals, smaller families, DINKs, and some second homes even. Dallas and Houston have lower income sections in their urban core which tend to be much more dense; families living in small apartments, etc.
Now West Campus, that density would probably compare.
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It sounds like you misunderstood. When I was referring to the core, I was including West Campus in that. Yes, downtown Austin housing is expensive, but I when I said it felt more dense it wasn't just the buildings I was referring to, but the number of people and activity on the street level. Regardless, the numbers don't lie. The makeup of the downtown population doesn't matter. There are in fact around 15k residents in the downtown CBD. That's not a guess on my part. DANA puts those numbers out.
The numbers I've previously seen (I don't have links or anything) for downtown Dallas and Houston were less than that. I want to say each was around 12k, but I could be off a bit. Also, I don't know exactly what areas of Dallas and Houston those stats were including. I assumed that was within their CBDs, but maybe it wasn't. If the stats encompassed more than their CBDs, then they are definitely less dense.
I still stand by the basic point I was making, Austin's combined urban core is probably the densest. If it's not, there probably aren't any other areas in the state that are much more dense than it is.