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High Vacancies, Low Households Equals Slow Construction

By in large, most key indicators point to a continued turnaround in the housing market. However, housing starts remain well below their normal levels.
Trulia looked into why this is the case, but it basically found that the vacancy rate is too high and household formation is too low to support normal levels of building activity:
- Household formation is 746,000 annually (2013 Q2) and has averaged just 560,000 annually since 2007 – roughly half of normal levels. Young adults, who are key to household formation, are still out of work and living with their parents.
- Geographic features, building regulations, and other supply constraints contribute to the perennial affordability problems in San Francisco, New York, and other cities. But the main reason why national construction today is well below normal is not supply constraints.
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This article originally published at http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/high_vacancies_low_households_equals_slow_construction/7568
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