[JackFr]

> In fact, most of the housing that was built in the late 1800s and early 1900s is still standing.

I don't think that the linked article actually says that.

What it does say is that Buffalo has the oldest housing stock in the country with a median construction year of 1954. I would guess that to be mostly an artifact of the declining population of the area, which peaked between 1960 and 1970.

[TimJYoung]

Yeah, I kind of conflated my anecdote with the reference in support of my anecdote. I'll have to see if I can dig up more data on this.

As for population, you have to be careful with the statistics on this because, while the area did lose population since the 70s, there was also a lot of flight from the city to the suburbs over the same time period. So, it is often more instructive to look at the total population of western NY instead of just the city of Buffalo.