The total supply of dwellings in the region was estimated at 4,100,000 on January 1, 1949 - a net gain of about 413,000 dwelling units since 1940.
This gain was not uniform throughout the Region. Three-quarters of the additional housing was built in the belt of counties lying just outside New York City. The City itself, although containing 60 per cent of the Region’s population in 1940, received only one-quarter of the total increase. Most of this was concentrated in outlying sections of Queens.
At the same time, the past eight years have seen other changes in the pattern of the Region’s housing development. There have been significant changes in household sizes, proportion of single-family dwellings, and age of dwellings.
