Ten Years Ago: Housing Starts were down Sharply as the Great Recession Started

It is hard to believe this was 10 years ago ... Ten years ago today, I discussed housing starts: Single Family Housing Starts Lowest Since Jan 1991 "Single-family housing starts in January were at a rate of 743,000; this is 5.2 percent below the December figure of 784,000." ... [S]ingle family starts [are] at the lowest level since the '91 recession. Single family starts had collapsed significantly, but still had much further to fall. Single family starts reached the lowest on record (since 1968) of 353 thousand SAAR in March 2009. It wasn't until April 2015 that single family starts were......(read more)

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