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Home Club Battles Drought

Promoting new statewide water restrictions, two California HomeClub locations staged free water conservation fairs, demonstrating watersaving devices and ways to beat the drought.

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Held at the Bakersfield and Santa Maria locations, the promotions offered tips on reducing water waste and had on hand public utilities representatives and product experts. They were held April 20.

Furniture Trends

MODULAR WALL UNITS AT 3 MAJOR MARKETS

OAK, RED & WHITE ASH & ELM PINE

ALDER, BIRCH, MAPLE CHERBY MAHOGANY

WALNUT-PECAN

BUBLS & OTHER

PAINTED E LACOUER

PRINTS & LAMINATES

GLASS, METAL, OTHEF RATTAN, CANE, WICKER

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I|AR0W000 trends for lurniture were tracked woods Division, Weyerhaeuser Co., Portland, at Dallas, Tx., San Francisco, Ca., and the 0r. Sparse attendance and slow sales were High Point, N.C., winter furniture markets by attributed to the Gulf War.

Arnold B. Curtis, president, Northwest Hard-

1990: A Bad Year For Housing

The continuing decline of homebuilding through 1990 left last year's recently released fourth quarter housing starts total at 221,195 units, l8% below the year-earlier quarter.

As a whole, 1990 was the worst year for the housing industry since the early 1980s when severe anti-inflationary credit restraint sharply curtailed building. The 1990 total of 1,133,000 housing starts rivaled 1982's total of 1,097,000 for the past decade's weakest output of homes, condos, and apartments.

"The only real difference between the current credit crunch and the last one is the form it has taken," said George A. Christie, chief economist for F.W. Dodge. "Despite falling interest rates in 1990, the current lack of funds available for real estate development is creating the same result that the sky-high rates of the early 1980s did."

Allbut one of the nation's top ten housing markets suffered deep declines in 1990. The exception, Detroit, managed to just equal its 1989 volume.

Los Angeles/Long Beach, Ca., led the nation with 28,898 units, down 39% from 1989. Riverside/San Bernardino, Ca., placed second with 27,230 units, a 370lo decline. Other top housing areas: Washington, D.C.. 25,709 units, down 310/ol Atlanta, Ga., 23,622 units, down 320lo;

Detroit. Mi., 20.024, unchanged; Seattle, Wa., 19,402 units, down l2o/o;Las Vegas, Nv., 17,566 units, down 41%; Orlando, Fl., 17,338 units, down 180/o; Chicago, Il., 16,977, down 280/0, and Sacramento, Ca., 15,723, down 30%.

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