Show More Than Dwellings D in the U. U S. S The rhe recent Increase of ot apartment houses In cities ana mii even in s suburban bur mn regions has hns given gi the Impression that the In individual ivl ual home is rapidly rapid pass- pass Ing Taking the country as a n whole this Is far from being th the situation although the lack ck resulted In a restriction restriction tion of 51 r building op operations With a population of about th the United States toda today has bus more than d In other words there are on the average five and tenth one-tenth persons to ever every dwell dwell- ing lag Ten years ears ago there here were five and t persons to a dwelling fifty years ago the ratio was five the and tenths six and seventy years ago six persons persons per per dwelling The Th size of the era n average e family In the oae meantime has decreased from five and tenths six in I to four and three tenths today todar The rhe proportion of famines to the number of dwellings varies in various parts of the country There are arc man many states In which there are more dwellings s than families California Cali Call fornia for Instance hn has about O dwellings n s and md families In Illinois there are about 1 dwellings dwelling's to families New Nev York In contrast to this has some sonic dwellings and about 2500 f families In Tn Pennsylvania the proportion Is much closer doser with dwellings or more dwellings dwell dwell- lags ings S than New York I |