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New housing starts up
Housing starts for single family homes nationwide increased 3.2 percent in May, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Tuesday.
Multi-family starts, which had surged in recently, were down from 236,000 units in April to 179,000 in May.
The number of new building permits issued, a strong indicator of future construction, were up 4 percent for single family homes in May.
--Christopher Quinn
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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.
