Building Freeze Lift Criticized
will be seen today on the of the 42d annual Georgetown House Tour sponsored by St. John's Church, One ot the houses today will be this, small row house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Egbert G.</br></br>NEW YORK, April 12 (UPI) President Nixon's mid-rch lifting of the freeze on erally-funded construction rk contradicts government licy on inflation and hous-problems, a leading con-uction economist said to-ht.</br></br>George A. Christie, vice [esident and chief economist jr McGraw-Hill's F. W. Dodge ision, said the pattern of nstruction contracts awarded the first two months of 1970 ntinued to be an exception y high volume of nonresi-ntial construction.</br></br>DodgeÛªs monthly report owed a 13 per cent rise in nresidential building and a per cent rise in nonbuilding nstruction in the first two nths of this year compared th the same 1969 period, sidential building, however, s down 17 per cent.</br></br>Û÷Under these circum nces,Û Christie said, ÛÏit ems a strange time to lift t SeptemberÛªs restrictions federally funded construe-n work, as was done two eks ago.