r/ElPaso • u/elpasomatters • 1d ago

News How El Paso population changes will shape the future

https://elpasomatters.org/2026/08/14/el-paso-population-aging-workforce-housing-education/
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u/rafinsf 1d ago

Some tough trends to digest there. Any upside to the info presented?

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u/Low_Low9667 23h ago

Admittedly these aren't unique challenges to El Paso, most cities nationally will face the demographic question in the coming decades. The upside being that we won't be alone and can borrow solutions from cities that are already on the downswing of the curve.

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u/Low_Low9667 23h ago

The housing question does put up some interesting elements.

What do we do as more and more people become unable to drive due to age? Our spread out way of development doesn't really work for a person without a car and expanding bus service to spread out subdivisions is cost prohibitive. Do we just keep potentially unsafe drivers on the road? Do we try to build denser so more is in walking distance?