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There also was a change in the~distribution of the middle-valued units from 1960 to 1970. The communities of Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley and Cypress gained greatly in terms of their proportion of these units Countywide from 1960-1970. This is related to the fact they were the three most explosive cities in the County in terms of numeric and! or percentage growth. In contrast to their~percentage loss of high-valued units, the cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton, Garden Grove and Santa Aha retained their percent- age share of these middle-valued units. This may be due to: (1) what new home construction that took place was probably on the lower end of the price spectrum, and (2) the average value of dwellings in these cities did not increase quite as quickly as that of other neighboring areas undergoing more 'rapid growth. Available data from the 1960 and 1970 Census and current market data appear to show a strong price and.qualitY disparity in the County's housing distribution. This discrepancy inten- sified by 1970, suggesting that where a great amount of low- income housing is found, there will not be counterbalancing amounts of high-valued unite. While this has been discussed above, the following Housing Valuation Tables clarify this shift in the housing dis- tribution. It can be seen, for example, that Newport Beach and Laguna Beach typify cities with a high proportion of the County's high-valued homes and a small proportion of low- valued units, while Santa Ana and Garden Grove are diametrically opposite examples; i.e., small percent of high-valued and high percent of low-valued. The five cities previously mentioned as owning the largest proportion of low-valued owner-occupied units by both 1960 and 1970 standards also showed a great number of dwellings termed as overcrowded by the Census Bureau. However, due to a lack of cross tabulations'between low-valued units .and overcrowding, it is presently not possible to test for any relationship between these two housing variables. Nearly 19,000 dwelling units were termed as overcrowded in 1960 due to having more than one person per room, as per census clas- sification. This was about 10 percent of the County's entire housing supply. Over half of these dwellings were located in the cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton, Garden Grove and Santa Aha. TwO other cities, Huntington Beach and Westminster, held relatively minor numbers of these units in 1960. However, by 1970, they increased their hold- ings substantially, due possibly to the rapid aging' of much of their housing stocks in parts of their older neighborhoods. 000065