CURRENT
CONSTRUCTION
REPORTS

CONSTRUCTION accounts
for approximately 12 percent
of the gross national product!
To assist industry representatives,
research specialists, market analysts,
and government officials interested
in this vital segment of the Nation's
economy, the Bureau of the Census
issues monthly, quarterly, and
annual reports on the value of new
construction put in place, building
permits, housing starts, housing
completions, housing sales,
alterations and repairs and

demolition of residential structures.

Current Construction Reports include:

C20 Housing Starts

C22 Housing Completions

C25 - Sales of New One-Family Homes
C30- Value of New Construction Put

in Place

C40 Housing Authorized by Building
Permits and Public Contracts

C41 Authorized Construction-
Washington, D.C. Area

C45 - Permits Issued for Demolition
of Residential Structures in
Selected Cities

C50 - Expenditures on Residential
Additions, Alterations,
Maintenance and Repairs, and
Replacements

U.S. DEPARTMEN

OF COMMERCE Social and Economic Statistics Administration BUREAU OF THE CENSUS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Social and Economic Statistics Administration BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

Series H-111-74-5

Issued March 1975

The Univeruity

Vacancy Rates and Characteristics of Housing in the
United States: Annual Statistics 1974

of Michigan Reference

Figure 1.--Vacancy Trends in Rental and Homeowner Housing:

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971

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