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Housing Starts and Building Permits

New privately owned U.S. housing units, annualized, thousands

Starts: 1,221 in Sep 2026−239 since Jan 1960
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Current·Data to Sep 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

How many new homes builders are starting, and how many are authorized to start. Permits lead starts by a month or two.

What this chart reads

Sources

Housing Starts. Source: The Census Bureau publishes this monthly survey of building permits and starts. Palanor pulls the series from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly.

New private housing units authorized. Source: The source is the U.S. Census Bureau series PERMIT, published monthly as a seasonally adjusted annual rate in thousands of units. Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API nightly.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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