The given line graph illustrates some of the family housing containing parents and their children, built in the specialized areas of the US between 2006 and 2012.
Overall, there are many homes distributed to four regions from South to West. While the number of single-family homes in the South reached the highest figure, that of the Northeast was the lowest. Additionally, all of the new residential constructions in four areas had downward trends.
On the one hand, it is clear to see that most single-family homes lived in the South which stood at 900,000, five times as much as that of the Northeast in 2006. While the number of people living in the Northeast significantly decreased from 180,000 in 2006 to nearly 50,000 in 2012, the number of South families declined by 150,000 in two years, starting from 2008, after 2010, it slightly developed to 350,000 in 2012
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On the other hand, both the West and the Midwest were on the decline between 2006 and 2010. At 450,000, the West homes were nearly three times as much as that of the Midwest. The next year 2010, although families living in the West had a little upward trend up to 150,000, people in the Midwest stayed stable at just 100,000.
