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families was $2,192. The average income for all families in the county was $7,201.
(The Rappahannock Social Services Department reports that only 97 households out of all below poverty level were participating in the Food Stamp program at the end of May, 1977.)
Between 1970 and 1975, Rappahannock County authorized 393 single family housing units, nine multifamily units and two mobile units for the lowest total of the Planning District. In the District as a whole, 6,556 units were authorized. In value, these units amounted to over 141 million dollars, or roughly $21,533 per unit. Planning Commission staffer David Marshall, who prepared the Housing Plan, emphasized that the value per unit did not include lot price and noted that .both mttWi-faiaflly junits nr; and mobile homes were included in the average. He added that he expected the current median price of new homes in the Planning District to be somewhere around the national average of $44,200 in 1976.
“Land values have had a iramatic impact in recent fears on the cost of new lousing. During the past lecade raw land has been the fastest rising element in the price of new housing,” the report states. “This is particularly significant when considering that land values generally have a multiplier effect on the total cost of construction in that developers tend to locate more expensive homes on higher priced land. Raw land is typically estimated to represent about 10 per cent of the total outlay for new housing.”
The report goes on to say that building materials are the single most costly component of new housing,
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