{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/jdshomes-net\/2026\/09\/04\/single-family-home-construction-plunges-in-july-but-permits-offer-signs-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:00:00","slug":"single-family-home-construction-plunges-in-july-but-permits-offer-signs-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/04\/single-family-home-construction-plunges-in-july-but-permits-offer-signs-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Family Home Construction Plunges in July, But Permits Offer Signs of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>U.S. single-family home construction fell sharply in July, with starts down 9.9% from June and 15.7% from last year, while total housing starts dropped 12.4%. Declines occurred across all regions, led by the Northeast. Despite weak demand due to high mortgage rates and costs, building permits rose 5% from June, suggesting potential future growth. Builders remain cautious amid economic uncertainty and a persistent housing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/news\/trends\/housing-starts-single-family-homes-construction-census-july-2026\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. single-family home construction fell sharply in July, with starts down 9.9% from June and 15.7% from last year, while total housing starts dropped 12.4%. Declines occurred across all regions, led by the Northeast. Despite weak demand due to high mortgage rates and costs, building permits rose 5% from June, suggesting potential future growth. Builders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}