Live from Alexandria…in reading the comments today about the report from yesterday, there appears to be more data to share.  I read a report from Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Ellen Podmolik today.    In there it said, “Almost all of the gain in the national numbers came from the multifamily sector, which includes apartments and condominiums.  Compared with January,  starts rose almost 80 percent on buildings of five units or more, but only 1.1 percent on single-family homes.”

Bottom line…people are working at building housing units and materials are being delivered to job sites.