New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits | FRED

**Overview**

This dataset contains a historical time-series data of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits (PERMIT) starting from 1960-01-01.

**Product Details**

Includes the following tables:

- **fs_fred.fred_PERMIT**
- **Update frequency:** Monthly
- **Source:** FRED
- **Description:** This table contains columns for `DATE` and `PERMIT`.The values within the data field labeled `PERMIT` represent the total number of new building permits for private housing units in the US in Thousands of Units at the time of the corresponding `DATE` field. Values are based on seasonally adjusted annual rate.

**Data Sources**

The data in this product comes from **FRED**.

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- **Source Homepage:** [Federal Reserve Economic Data | FRED | St. Louis Fed](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
- **Source Data:** [New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places, Total Units | FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=PERMIT)
- **License:** [Full FRED® Services Terms of Use](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/#full-fred-terms)
- **Frequency:** monthly