Just looking at new housing units is only half of the story. I can't and won't speculate on how many homes were torn down during the time it took to build 77 mi

Just looking at new housing units is only half of the story. I can't and won't speculate on how many homes were torn down during the time it took to build 77 million housing units, but it had to be a significant number. If two single-family houses were torn down to make room for one new-build, single-family house, then it is a loss of housing. Not to mention natural disasters, condemned housing, rural housing being torn down for farmland, urban housing being torn down for new highways. I do wonder how many houses were destroyed in that same timeframe.