\*edit\*: I see what I did, the plot I give numbers from is houses per decade. N...

*edit*: I see what I did, the plot I give numbers from is houses per decade. Not per year. Sorry about that. You can confirm the values are still real by comparing the simple plot (via: statista.com, http://a.superkuh.com/USA-number-of-homes-built-between-1900...) to the https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/historical_data/inde... numbers.

Thanks for pointing out what should have been an obvious error. Yikes.