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The boom in the housing industry pushed new housing starts up in 2003 to an estimated 1.6 million, compared to 1.2 million new starts in 2000.
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As a result of government incentives and strong demand, both single and multi-family housing starts boomed--skyrocketing from 139,000 in 1944 to 1.9 million by 1950.
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The boom in the housing industry pushed new housing starts up in 2003 to an estimated 1.6 million, compared to 1.2 million new starts in 2000.
Housing starts in 2002 stood at 1.71 million
An economic indicator (or business indicator) is a statistic about the economy. Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of future performance. One application of economic indicators is the study of business cycles. Economic indicators include various indices, earnings reports, and economic summaries. Examples: unemployment rate, quits rate, housing starts, Consumer Price Index (a measure for inflation), Consumer Leverage Ratio, industrial production, bankruptcies, Gross Domestic Product, broadband internet penetration, retail sales, stock market prices, money supply changes. The leading business cycle dating committee in the United States of America is the National Bureau of Economic Research (private). The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the field of labor economics and statistics. Other producers of economic indicators includes the United States Census Bureau and United States Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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The fledgling prefab industry grew during the post-World War II economic boom. As the economy and population grew, housing starts soared.
although single-family housing starts dropped by 50 percent in 1966 to about 800,000, they peaked in 1972 at about 1.3 million. After falling to approximately 850,000 in 1975, housing starts rose to more than 1.4 million in 1977.
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As mortgage rates skyrocketed past 16 percent, housing starts collapsed to 705,000 in 1981 and then to only 663,000 during 1982.
Despite the government's lowering of mortgage rates in 1990, housing starts quickly plummeted to 895,000 in 1990 and to only 840,000 in 1991.
housing starts began slowly declining in 1987, as interest rates edged upward, and the U.S. economy began to fall into a recession.
Housing starts increased from 1.2 million in 2000 to an estimated 1.6 million in 2003. Growth in the industry is expected to level off after 2003.