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Mqrch Housing Stqrts-83rOOo; Totql 1956 Sfqfis-l rl | 8,1OO

The preliminary estimate of 83,000 new nonfarm dwelling units started in March makes a total of 2l3,tJ0O starts the first three months of this year, compared with 252,IOO last year. This brings the seasonally adjusted annual rate dowr: to 880,000 units.

A downward revision in the December figure of 400 units brings the final total estimate of starts for the year 1956 to 1,118,10O units, reports the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.

The 83,000 March housing starts were an increase of.28% over February, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of tabor Statistics reported. The March total was 16/o under ayeat ago, however, and the lowest for any year since 1949. It included 75,5m private and 7,500 public nonfarm housing rrnits. The exceptionally large number of new public housing units placed under construction during March were all in the Capehart military housing program.

Final Figures for 1956

The final reports for 1956, shor,r'ing a total of 1,118,100 nonfarm dwelling units started during the year, was 16/o lower in 1956 than in 1955. Construction of single family houses, which accounted for nearly 89/o ol the 1956 total, was 17% below the record set in 1955. Sharpest cutbacks in homebuilding in 1956 were in the metropolitan areas, wherc housing starts were down. 20/o, compared with only 4/o in the non-metropolitan areas. Regionally, the 1955-56 decline in nonfarm housing starts ranged from l4/' in the South to 19/o in the West.

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