New privately owned U.S. housing units authorized | Statista

The graph shows the number of new privately owned homes that were authorized in the United States from 1970 to 2013. In 2005, the number of new privately owned housing units in structure with one unit amounted to approximately 1.7 million.

New privately owned housing units authorized in the U.S. from 1970 to 2013, by number of units (in thousands)

Characteristic	1 unit	2 units	3 and 4 units	5 units or more
1970	646.8	43	45.1	616.7
1975	675.5	34.1	29.8	199.8
1980	710.4	53.8	60.7	365.7
1985	956.5	54	66.1	656.6
1990	793.9	26.7	27.6	262.6
1995	997.3	32.2	31.5	271.5
2000	1,198.1	30.6	34.3	329.3
2005	1,682	39.3	44.7	389.3
2006	1,378.2	35.3	41.3	384.1
2007	979.9	28.1	31.5	359
2008	575.6	16.8	17.6	295.4
2009	441.1	10.7	10	121.1
2010	447.3	10.8	11.2	135.3
2011	418.5	11.1	10.4	184
2012	518.7	13.3	12.6	285.1
2013*	617.5	13.6	13	332.3

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January 2014

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United States

Survey time period

1970 to 2013

Supplementary notes

Authorized in permit-issuing places.
* Preliminary figure.
Figures for the period 1970 to 1990 come from earlier publications.

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