March housing starts near record low

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Housing starts in March fell to 510,000 nationwide, the second-lowest total on record. The record low was set in January. This reverses a modest gain posted in February, when a bit of apartment construction in the Northeast bumped the total up.

Here’s the full Census/HUD news release.

-- Peter Y. Hong