A smaller share of Americans married, drove to work alone, owned their own home or moved to a new residence last year than the year before.
More lived in overcrowded housing. Property values declined. And fewer immigrants arrived, which meant that for the first time since the beginning of the decade, the total number of foreign-born people in the country did not grow.
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