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present dwellings and moving into newer homes found that they couldn’t do so.

They were held in check by the tight money conditions, which made mortgages difficult to obtain, and by the high interest rates that made for very big mortgage payments. They decided, therefore, to do the next best thing-fix up their present places.

Their biggest expenditure, in most cases,''Was for Additions, alterations and replacements. This accounted for 61 percent of the total.

The other 39 percent was for

89.0%