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Multi-family building permits dropped 5.8% to a rate of 437,000 units. Building permits as a whole slipped 0.7% to a rate of 1.483 million units. They decreased 3.1% from a year ago.
Multi-family building permits dropped 5.8% to a rate of 437,000 units. Building permits as a whole slipped 0.7% to a rate of 1.483 million units. They decreased 3.1% from a year ago.
According to the New York Times, "single-family zoning is practically gospel in America," as a vast number of cities zone land extensively for detached single-family homes. [10] Low-density residential zoning is far more predominating in U.S. cities than in other countries. [7]
The most current incarnation of the URAR is the Fannie Mae Form 1004 [1] updated for March 2005. It is considered a full appraisal with all three approaches to value, cost approach, sales comparison approach, and income approach. [2]
[13] Hirt says single-family zoning is a uniquely American phenomenon: "I could find no evidence in other countries that this particular form — the detached single-family home — is routinely, as in the United States, considered to be so incompatible with all other types of urbanization as to warrant a legally defined district all its own, a ...
U.S. single-family homebuilding fell in June, but permits for future construction rose to a 12-month high as a severe shortage of previously owned houses for sale supports new construction. The ...
These data are divided into three types: single-family houses, townhouses or small condos, and apartment buildings with five or more units. Each apartment unit is considered a single start. The construction of a 30-unit apartment building is counted as 30 housing starts.
[4] [5] [6] The first Buildings Department was created in Manhattan in 1892. In 1901 the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement Housing Act of 1901, which established a city Tenement Housing Department, including a Buildings Bureau and a Bureau of Inspection. [7] A citywide Department of Buildings though did not exist until 1936. [4]