After a surge in February, new housing construction slowed in New Haven and across the state last month, with Milford leading the region, state figures show.
Connecticut’s 104 cities and towns surveyed by the U.S. Census Bureau issued 285 new housing permits in March, down from 452 in February and 326 in March 2017, according to the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
But new housing activity for the first three months of 2018 is still pacing ahead of last year, with 1,034 housing permits issued compared to 773 for the same period in 2017.
In New Haven and Middlesex counties, Milford issued the most permits at 19, followed by Cheshire with 6. After leading the state with 279 permits in February, New Haven issued just a single permit for new housing in March, the figures show.
Most of the permits issued statewide in March (147) were for single-family homes, a shift from February when the majority of new home activity was for larger apartments, condos and town homes.
Dwellings with five or more units received the second highest number of permits in March, 130, while multi-family homes with fewer than five units received eight.
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