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June Housing Stqrts| 29,OOO

Thc preliminary cstimatc of i29,000 neu. rronfarnr dn'c11ing urrits startecl in June is 12,500 rrr.rits more th:in June last 1-car. A <1on,rrn'arcl revision in the March lrgures lrror"rght the tot:rl estirnated starts for the first six months <rf this year to (J9,300. This is 109,800 aheacl of thc s:rme six months of 19.521, but 26,.100 lou-er than the first six months of the record-breaking 1.ear of 1950.

Prir-atelv on'necl housing starts in June totaled 126.500, representing a seasonallv adjrrsted annual rate of 1,320,000 units-an eclge over the annual rate for April and May, but.,1,e11 lrelou. the 1,400,000 averag'e for the fall and rvinter months of 1954-55 ancl the alltime high of 1,496,0U1 in June 1950.

The 679,300 r'reu. nonfarnr <lu-clling units (privatc zrnd public) startcd during thc lirst half oi this vcar rere 19/o abor-e thc 569,500 units bcgttn in the c()rrcsl)"rt,iing 195-l periocl, a,n<l 4/c belol Janrrary Juue r.olttme in the recordbreaking year 1950.

Final estitrates nou':rvailaltle for the Iirst quartcr oI 19.55 slrolv that the grcatcst gain in hottsing activity ovcr Jar-ru:rry-N{arch 1954 occttrred in thc \\rcst, u'here r-olttme l'as higher this year by a third.

Single-familr' houses continued to :rccottt.tt for the greatest strides in nen. nonfarm starts. Comparing first-cltlarter activity this year u.ith last, l-family housing \vas t1P l)y 28/,t, and units in ?-fanril)' houses by l6c/o. Ap:rrtlrent lrtrilding, on thc other hand, u'as tlorvn by l0/o.