Los Angeles Building Records for Citv and County

Gilbert E. Morris, superintendent of the Department of Building and Safety for the city of Los Angeles, announced on December first that the city permits set a new record of $42,297,439 for the month of November, which comp-ares with $32,361,013 for October of this year, and $22,U4,735 for November 1949. The total for the first eleven months of the present year total $365,M7,435, compared with last year's $261,193,714. Mr. Morris said that housing construction continues without appreciable reduction.

W. J. Fox, head of I-os Angeles County Building Department, released the county figures for construction in November, showing that 3775 permits with a value of $22,278,20I were issued for a new record high. The next previous November was in 1948 when a valuation of $18,000,000 was placed on permits granted. For the year to date 56,975 permits have been issued in the county with a total value of. $314,903,794. In the dwelling category there were 37,028 permits issued during the first eleven months of the present year, which is higher than the total for 1949 by about 60 per cent.

The total single-family home units for which permits were taken out for the eleven months totaled more than 20,000, which is an all-time record for small home construction.

For the first ten months of 1950, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc', issued the following table, showing construction up to November first in the top 25 cities of the country: