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New Housing Construction Slows
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Business New Haven
8/21/2000
By: Priscilla Searles
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The number of new housing units in Connecticut is on the wane, according to the state's Department of Economic & Community Development. Year to date permits are down 15.7 % from 5,514 in January through May 1999, compared to 4,648 through May of 2000.
Connecticut municipalities authorized 844 new housing units in June of this year, a 31.4 percent decrease from June 1999, when 1,230 units were authorized. The June 2000 figure also represented a 2.2 percent decrease over the previous month.
New Haven County had the largest number of new authorized units this June, with 189. Hartford County followed with 173 and Fairfield County with 171. Southington and Stamford both led all Connecticut municipalities with 26 units, followed by Danbury with 23 and North Haven with 21.
HOUSING PERMITS
Muncipality June YTD
2000 2000 1999
Ansonia 2 14 21
Beacon Falls 2 21 21
Bethany 6 16 13
Branford 6 19 27
Bridgeport 1 16 22
Cheshire 12 37 36
Clinton 5 29 30
Deep River 5 27 11
Derby 5 21 15
East Haven 2 21 22
Essex 4 20 23
Fairfield 4 18 40
Guilford 5 52 61
Hamden 20 184 146
Killingworth 2 19 31
Madison 4 26 42
Meriden 6 26 21
Middlebury 2 13 11
Middlefield 0 9 16
Naugatuck 9 35 24
New Haven 4 16 216
North Branford 1 7 14
North Haven 21 70 122
Old Saybrook 0 10 11
Orange 2 9 8
Oxford 11 35 38
Prospect 5 24 16
Seymour 3 25 25
Shelton 11 58 89
Straford 0 6 27
Trumbull 9 43 58
Wallingford 11 66 109
Waterbury 8 58 24
West Haven 3 24 25
Westbrook 5 48 22
Woodbridge 2 11 16
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