Jon Mooallem profiles the self-storage industry and explores what the explosive growth and current downturn can teach us about America's evolving consumer culture. Amazingly we learn that;
After a monumental building boom, the United States now has 2.3 billion square feet of self-storage space. (The Self Storage Association notes that, with more than seven square feet for every man, woman and child, it’s now “physically possible that every American could stand — all at the same time — under the total canopy of self-storage roofing.”) NYT