New housing construction picked up steam in Connecticut last month, fueled mostly by a surge of building in the Elm City, new figures show.
New Haven authorized 279 new housing permits in February, more than half of all permits issued in the state for the month, according to figures compiled by the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
Laurence Grotheer, spokesman for New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, said the activity “reflects developers’ robust interest in the city as a place to invest and the continuing desirability of New Haven as a place for residents to feel at home.”
Across Connecticut, 104 cities and towns surveyed by the U.S. Census Bureau issued 452 permits in February, up from 157 during the same month in 2017, and 297 in January of this year.
Nearly 70 percent of the permits were for dwellings with five or more units (316), while 115 permits were granted for single-family homes.
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