Housing Starts And Permits Down In April
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Housing Starts and Building Permits for March 2009
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DATE |
CURRENT |
LAST |
% Change |
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Starts |
05/19/2009 |
458Th |
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525Th |
-12.8% |
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Permits |
05/19/2009 |
494Th |
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511Th |
-3.3% |
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Total housing starts declined 13% in April to an annual rate of 458,000, led by a large 46% contraction in multifamily starts (to 90,000). However, single-family starts, which account for approximately 80% of total output, increased 3% from March to a seasonally adjusted 368,000. Building permits, a sign of future production, fell 3.13% in April to 494,000, seasonally adjusted.
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