[bgill]

Not in my part of the South. New housing has never slowed down.

[Jack Hammer]

Hmmmm.... this sounds a bit like yet another Obama apologist making excuses for the Marxist economic sh*t pile we’re in.

[x1stcav]

Uh, what about Phoenix?

[Wuli]

ALL housing is entirely a collective of thounsands of local housing markets, each with their own conditions that “national” statistical trends never entirely reflect and
because national statistics do not alone spell good or bad for each independent market, they should be ignored and the only government statitics reported should only be ones that are specific to a state, region in a state or locale.

The rest may be appreciated by nationwide bankers and such, statisticians and economists but not most people, who simply want to know what very specific housing markets are doing.

[elpadre]

how do the housing experts determine when more housing is needed and when their is sufficient housing available for the given population? Could the South have a surplus of housing available?? - just curious.

[smokingfrog]

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Starts were actually up in the rest of the country. In the Northeast, housing starts were up 14.1%, driven mostly by multifamily starts.

IOW, apartments.

[montag813]

The housing market is very strong. It does us no good to pretend it’s not. Focus on the border to sweep out vulnerable Dems in Novemeber