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Show HOME SEEKING LINES NEAR NYLON RUSHES Home-seeking queues threatened threat-ened to outdo nylon lines in the nation this week as Baltimore reported re-ported an overnight lineup for housing applications. Housing experts, meanwhile, focused attention on the program set up by the President's housing expediter, Wilson .Wyatt, calling for 2,700,000 dwelling units at an estimated cost of $11 billion. Current Cur-rent plans call for completion of the project by the end of 1947. In Baltimore home buying took on the aspects of a World Series game, when shortly after midnight a line began to form for the filing of applications to purchase 64 homes in the "northwood section that will not be ready for occupancy occu-pancy until October. The line of applicants, all veterans, contained six shivering people at 5 a. m., and had grown to 28 by 9 a. m. In Milwaukee, Wis., and its suburbs, half of the families planning plan-ning to build new homes have savings to make their dreams come true, and 24 percent already have purchased their lots, the 1946 consumer con-sumer anatlysis of the area by the Milwaukee Journal has disclosed. Costs Rising . . . Rising building costs and higher high-er labor' rates caused a marked change in the answers on the price class of homes to be built. |