AS5 - Sunday, Jane 10, 1984 - North Shore News

NORTH SHORE municipalities participated in housing starts was lower in
a mini-boom of housing construction in March, March, 1984, than in March,
but the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Cor- !983, but the numbers of

poration is predicting a dim future for housing U™ts completed or under
starts in the future construction were = substan-

tially higher.

The CMHC’s monthly March, compared to only In North Vancouver city,
Housing Statistics report, four the year before. While housing starts fell from 53 in
released this week, says that there were four fewer houses March, 1983, to two in
housing starts in April in completed during the month March, 1984, while the
urban areas of B.C. were than there were the year number of completions
similar to those in the before, the number of jumped from three to 13 and
previous nine months, with housing units under con- the number of units under
the excepuion of March, and struction at the end of — construction went from $9 to
that ‘‘the usual seasonal March stood at 100, more 112. °

upturn in single family res- thantwice the number of In North Vancouver
idential construction starts’’ March, 1983. district the number of
did not materialize this year. In North Vancouver city housing starts was also

The report Says actual and district, the number of down, from 29 to 14.
housing starts in B.C. in

April were 1,203 units, well “DO IT

below last April's total of YOURSELF”
2,093 starts. or

‘‘The prospects for in- HAVE IT DONE

creased (housing) Starts in

the future appear dim,’’ the
report says. ~ :
Figures for housing starts MANUFACTURED BY
and completions for North DYWIDAG
Shore municipalities are not FAB CON
yet available for April. Prec
March statistics showed and Exposed Aggregate
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