New residential construction in the city continued to plummet in November as developers grappled with tight credit markets and dwindling sales. Permits for new residential buildings fell 74% to 63 in November compared with a year earlier, while the units authorized by those permits dropped 48% to 1,235, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The scarcity of new residential projects drove the value of construction associated with permits more than four times lower than November 2007, to just over $51 million.
The decline mirrored a national one that saw housing starts across the country in November fall to their lowest level since the government began collecting data in 1959.
Residential permits down 74% in November
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So where in the hell is the presevation community?? They should be using this opportunity to go after development and try to change things. Down scale.
Oh, no, that will not happen. The very heart of those communities (whose taxes we are protecting with landmark designtion) are filled with developers, investors in real estate, property holders of human baracks.
Its in their best interst that develpment still occurs and since it will not be in their communties, they only will profit from it.
Bastards.
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