Housing starts and building permit data for Oct. 2017
SBCA (the Structural Building Components Association) has compiled the following October housing starts and building permit data for the U.S. and Canada. U.S. October housing starts (released November 17) increased 13.7% to 1,290,000 units. Single-family starts increased 5.3% to 877,000 units, while multi-family increased by 36.8% to 413,000 units. Total U.S. permits, an...