The single-family detached units with two-car garages are to range from $250,000 to $280,000.

Without seasonal adjustment or annualization, 74,100 houses were actually started last month, 61,200 of them single-family units.

Low interest rates and population growth were cited as reasons for the expected increase in single-family units.

Here some 15,000 people live in mostly single-family units grouped around green inner courtyards.

As it turned out, single-family units there were well above their price range.

The housing is mainly single-family units (almost 70 percent, running from small starter homes to larger dwellings.

The small lot required that Quarters 18 also be a single-family unit.

"For that amount of money," he said, "we could have built single-family units in Scarsdale."

Construction of single-family units has not been lower since August 1984, when units were begun at a 967,000 annual rate.

One is a restaurant with apartments above - single-family units, a hundred percent occupancy.