July Housing Starts Drop to 965,000

Building Permits in July dropped 17.7% to an annual rate of 937,000 according to the Commerce Department yesterday. It also reported that housing starts for the month were at an annual rate of 965,000, which is 11.0% below the revised June estimate of 1,084,000.

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