It's interesting how the density in LA is in these stats that are apparently satellite-image-based even without knowing how many SFHs are badly overcrowded. I guess part of it is vast expanses of homes on relatively small lots. (Or maybe the image data is supplemented with census data.)

Yeah, Los Angeles is weird this way, because it is ultra-low-rise, but its low-income single-family areas are almost as densely populated as portions of DC that are chock full of apartments and rowhouses with much higher FAR. There is lots of human suffering hidden in that data, I think.

This is correct- Los Angeles has the most overcrowded housing of any city in the country, by a wide margin. It was one of the reasons COVID hit LA so hard - people couldn't isolate cayimby.org/blog/califor...

It’s normalized against census data

Ah thanks

Is Bay Area really ‘suburban’ ? it’s a bunch of cities close together

Parts of the Bay Area definitely have the city - suburb pattern, for example a lot more people commuting from the East Bay to the West Bay than the other way around.

Ah yes, the reverse commute a Silicon Valley unicorn.

The Bay Area and LA are like a bunch of smaller cities spread out. East Coast cities aren’t like that. DC is really the closest to the West Coast (DC/Tysons/Reston/etc.), and it’s still not anything like the West Coast.