Housing Starts and Permits Continue to Fall

Housing Starts and Building Permits for February 2009
	DATE	CURRENT		LAST	% Change	Download Starts and Permits
Starts	02/18/2009	466Th		560Th	-16.8%
Permits	02/18/2009	521Th		547Th	-5.8%

Housing starts fell 17 percent in January to an annual rate of 466,000 while building permits, an indicator of future construction, decreased 5 percent to 521,000. Both figures were considerably below year-earlier figures. Construction of single-family homes, which include both detached and attached units, declined 12 percent between December and January to a 347,000 annual rate. Work on multifamily housing dropped 28 percent from the prior month to a 119,000 level..

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