Sources: John Burns Research and Consulting. LLC; US Census Bureau; 2023 Estimates of County Housing Units; Mar-24 / Dec-24 / Mar-25 Building Permits Survey.

Posted by SweetYams0

17 comments

  2. The title doesn’t seem to be what the map shows. Units authorized for building should relate more to where construction will make the largest dent over the coming 12-24 months.

  3. I like that this map includes the greater metropolitan area of major cities. Data for Chicago can vary greatly if you’re talking about the city, Cook county, or the metro

  4. Not surprised that no one is building houses considering we are in the middle of Drumpf’s great Depression.

  5. Am Carpenter in the bright red parts in TN. Home prices are wild right now. My house doubled in price in 4 years. It’s a tiny little trap home too

  6. And yet the red states continue to build and keep things affordable for newcomers. Big blue states really need to get their act together to up their housing construction. This imbalance is a large part of the reason of why the U.S. is where it is now.

  8. There’s been a bunch of maps in this sub recently that seem to use the same underlying template. It’s distortion of county boundaries makes it virtually unreadable east of the Rockies, where counties are smaller and tightly packed. This makes the data considerably less beautiful.

    I live in central Indiana. The largest red county appears to be Tippecanoe (home of Purdue University) which is depicted on this map with an indent on the west side, and a small panhandle towards the northeast. In reality is is close to a perfect rectangle. Likewise Marion County (Indianapolis) is depicted as having a ten-sided boundary with a notch SW, a panhandle NE, and a notch SE. In reality, it is almost perfectly square; only the NE panhandle actually exists.

    Can we please stop using this difficult to decipher map?

  9. Dent is not the right word.. addition would be the right word

  11. I’m guessing the numbers are comparing percentages of those specific regions against *their own* historic data. Anything else would have to be a distortion. Actual numbers for most of these areas are tiny in comparison to the larger metro areas.

  12. In Polk County, Florida, the commissioners are so corrupt. They’ll let a developer fill in a sensitive wetland area so they can build more track houses.

  13. Lots of new houses down in hurricane country huh

  14. Hendricks County Indiana makes sense but I’m surprised it’s ahead of Boone County, it’s northern neighbor

  15. The irony is that new homes still cost market prices, like new apartments. The whole “build more housing and the cost will go down cuz supply and demand” is pretty fucking moot at this point.

  16. It would be helpful to have the % of homes for sale (existing stock) as a map as well. It would seem to be missing context as if there are currently a large inventory in an area then building 3% of that area is not as much of a good thing as a place with low inventory to start with.

  17. I love how we build the most in the places that have the highest climate risk.

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