They rarely do. We love them, of course, but it's the space. It's big trouble when you have a big family and you don't have a big house. Gilbert Fonseca is one of the 242,349 people in New York City, according to the 2000 census, who live with extended relatives. That segment of the city's population increased from 209,099 in 1990 and has nearly doubled since 1980.
Demographers attribute the rise to recently arrived immigrants.
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