Retirement Housing Progrqm Next on DFPAgendq

A retirement-housing prog?am, complete with merchandising

W. E. Difford, executive vice-president of the trade association, made the announcement at the completion of a two-day conference on retirement-housing sponsored by the DF PA in Tacoma, Wash. Nine of the country's top figures in this field attended the conference and later agreed to serve as a standing committee to assist in development of the DFPA program.

"We have the d.ata now to start puttlng together a step-by-step program-an encyclopedla-for bullders, lumbor dealers and others who are lnterested ln onterlng thls market," Dlfiord said.

Census Bureau figures presented at the conference indicate that the market for retirement housing is about 23 million now, and in five years will hit 29 million.

Difford said the new program would supplement existing promo-