ABA-Housing Starts Increase in August.

ENPNewswire-September 22, 2021--ABA-Housing Starts Increase in August

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Release date- 21092021 - Housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.615 million in August, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

This is 3.9% above the revised July estimate of 1.554 million and is 17.4% above the August 2020 rate of 1.376 million.

Housing starts were mixed across the country, increasing in the South (1.4%), Northeast (167.2%), Midwest (11.4%), and decreasing in the West (21.1%).

New building permits were 1.728 million in August, 6.0% above the previous month and 13.5% higher year-over-year. Single-family building permits increased...

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