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I »-> Home Building On Rise By Angela Burden SHAW MtDIA NEWS SERVICE <• Bank loan interests are becoming easier to swallow, real estate sales are picking up and people in the building trades, although having a tough time, should have their hopes raised with the recent increase in building permits Statistics for this year on building permits issued in the unincorporated areas of McHenry county, in the municipalities and in adjacent counties show a steady improvement over the past two years. In fact, the home building industry is on the upswing nationwide. "It couldn't be better, all over, in Illinois, too. New home building is doing very well. I hope it will sustain," Gopal Ahluwalia, director of statistics and surveys for the National Association of Home Builders, an­ nounced. The McHenry County Department of Building and Zoning issued 67 permits for single family residences during 1982. Already this year, the department has issued 46 permits for private residences. The approximate total value of single-family residences built in the, unincorporated area of the county last; year was $5 million. The first quarter i of this year showed that new homes have a total value of $2.5 million. "New housing in the county is showing an increase and indications from developers is that the market is there," Glenn Peterson, McHenry county's Building and Zoning officer, said this week. The steady increase in home building, although encouraging, is not expected to match the boom years, 1977-79, in the county. The statistics in the county's department of building and zoning show that 1,206 single-family residence permits were issued in 1977, dropping to 1,070 in 1978 and 449 in 1979. The total value of homes built during 1979 in McHenry county was approximately $30 million. By 1981 that figure had dropped to $8.4 million for 107 new homes. Building in the city of McHenry is , up this year. Housing permits issued ! by the city through April totaled 31 for 1 single-family homes and one for a 32- ) unit apartment building. ! The average of new housing costs • nationwide shows that 45 percent goes ! for labor and materials, according to | the National Association of • Homebuilders. j The association's breakdown of • costs for single-family residences ! shows 30 percent for materials, 15 » percent labor, 24 percent finished lot, ! 15 percent financing, 12 percent • marketing and 4 percent profit in 1982. 1 _ The percentage of materials used in i an average home, of which 54 percent ' is for the structural portion, an ! association spokesman said, is 21.8 for i lumber, 10.2 millwork, 8.7 carpentry ! labor, 6.3 for drywall, laths and < plaster, 2.4 insulation, 2.5 roofing, 0.6 | gutters and downspouts and 1.5 percent for hardware. The percentage for basement, masonary and concrete is 16.2. The mechanical percentage for electrical, plumbing and heating (and in some cases air conditioning) is 17.7. Finishing work, such as carpeting, floor covering, painting and in­ cidentals is 12.1 percent, the director of statistics said today. From an incomc; standpoint, who ought to be able to buyp new home these days? Jack McNeil, presidentof the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago, believes the average American family, with a combined or single income of about $24,000, should be able to purchase a new home of their desire without help from government subsidy programs. McNeil said recently that .the' problem is the lack of available new housing these families can afford to buy. "They cannot afford to buy median- priced homes, which cost about $73,000, and homes that they could afford, in the $52,000 price range, are not available in the majority of suburban Chicago communities," he said. "The housing industry is perfectly capable of producing housing at a price that the mass of young people can afford to buy," said McNeil. "However, builders are being prevented from doing so at present by restrictive building and zoning code practices in a growing number of villages and towns." According to McNeil: "We're at a point where there's an increasing market demand for smaller, con- temporary-sized housing while, at the same time, we see villages and towns going in the opposite direction and only permitting the construction of larger homes on larger lots." He said the market demand in the last few years for smaller housing has been caused not only by higher in­ terest rates but also by changing family lifestyles. Nowadays, in many subdivisions, more than 50 percent of the home buyers are "non- traditional" families. "That is, over half of the buyers are comprised of singles and professional couples without children," McNeil said. 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