January saw total housing starts fall by 3.6%, but economists were more focused on home building permits, which are a gauge of future house building. And what they saw left them upbeat about what could be coming, as housing permits rose to their highest level since March 2007. Even so, the dip in housing starts
Construction Could Impact Colorado’s Recovery
June 7, 2011 by
There are concerns about the construction industry’s impact on Colorado’s fragile recovery, as this sector has lost 60,000 jobs during the last three years. This is nearly half of the 130,000 jobs lost in Colorado, and recently that contraction became worse. In 2007 the construction industry and related sectors employed one in five private-sector workers,