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Table V-1 compares the growth of the housing stock in relation to population. While the population of Santa Aha was increasing by 56 percent from'1960 to 1970, the housing stock increased by only 50 percent. This population growth created considerable pressure for new housing. Between 1970 and 1974, the population increased by 17 percent, and housing units increased by 21 percent. However, to a large degree, this fluctuation in the ratio of housing to population growth is the effect of a decline in the City's birth rate. As reflected in Table V-2, the birth rate of residents in Santa Ana dropped from 30.61 births per 1,000 persons in 1960 to 21.42 births i~ 1973. This had the effect of lowering the persons per house- hold from 3.18 in 1960 to 3.06 in 1974. ; Data from the 1960 Census referred to earlier, indicate that five cities--Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana--contain~d more than half of all owner-occupied units in the County valued under $10,000, by 1960 standards. By 1970, these same five cities increased their share of the County's low-priced units to 60 percent. However, by 1970, the standard for Iow-priced dwelling units had shifted from $10,000 to $20,000; virtually no new dwelling units under $10,000 were built between 1960 and 1970. The upward shift in the s.tandards from 1960 to 1970 is due to two factors: an overall, upward shift of the distribution and an increase in the Home Ownership Component of the Consumer Price Index for the Los Angeles-Orange County area. While there has been a shift in the distribution Of the lower-valued homes, there have also been changes in the expensive and middle-valued units. These ranges were $20,000 and over and $10,000-$20,000, respectively, in 1960. Due to the shift in the price distribution, the 1970 standards were moved to $35,000 plus and $20,000-$35,000, respectively. As of 174, the cities of Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Seal Beach, Villa Park, Irvine and the unincorporated area of Tustin- Foothills held a disproportionately large share of the most e~pensive homes with regard to their percentage share of the County's total housing stock. While this pattern was evident in 1960 and 1970, the 1974 data show that there was a strong shift to these areas from 1960-1974 with regard to the construc- tion of expensive units. While this.moVement was under way, the five cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton, Garden Grove and Santa Aha underwent a considerable downward shift from 1960 to 1974 in their proportion of the. County's highest-valued units. This decline from 37 percent to approximately 17 percent had the ' effect of widening the gap between their housing composition and that of neighboring cities and areas with high proportions of expensive dwellings. 000065