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Population Surges Prompt Growing Pains For Texas
Being home to four of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas brings Texas its share of bragging rights, but it also taxes the state’s resources, says James P. Gaines of Texas A&M’s Real Estate Center, a research economist at Texas A&M University.
The expected population explosion of an additional 13.6 million people over the next 25 years projected by the state demographer’s office equates to the number of people in the 12-county Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the nine-county Houston area, the seven-county San Antonio area plus the population of Corpus Christi.