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Building Michigan Homes

Building Michigan Homes

Tracking Our Progress

Michigan’s Statewide Housing Plan provides a blueprint for addressing the state’s housing needs by expanding supply, improving affordability and strengthening communities.

This page tracks progress toward the plan’s goals, including housing production across Michigan. Current and historic building permit data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers one measure of new housing activity and helps show where development is occurring across the state.

By tracking housing trends and progress over time, Michigan can better understand where needs remain, identify opportunities to increase housing supply and support quality, affordable housing solutions that meet the needs of all communities.

Building Permit Graphic Last 12 Months
 

(NOTE: Residential buildings are buildings containing one or more housing units. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live separately from any other individuals in the building, and which have a direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall. Exclusions to the counts include group quarters (e.g., dormitories, jails, nursing homes), other structures on residential property (e.g., sheds, garages), residential additions and alterations, and maintenance and repair.

A downward adjuster of 5% has been applied to the counts to reflect that, on average, approximately 5% of residential buildings that are permitted, aren’t finished.

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (updated monthly).

Building Permit Graphic By Quarter

 

2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
January - 1,283 1,128 1,045 1,102 1,176
February - 1,321 958 1,335 1,394 1,301
March - 2,098 1,651 1,449 1,810 1,545
April - 1,865 1,604 1,601 1,947 1,864
May - 2,267 1,533 1,962 1,944 2,012
June - 1,932 1,811 1,668 2,240 2,139
July - 1,548 1,789 1,645 2,173 1,925
August - 2,324 2,183 2,004 2,122 1,744
September - 1,628 1,606 1,873 2,348 -
October 1,889 1,517 1,676 2,302 2,427 -
November 1,682 975 1,672 1,662 1,416 -
December 1,516 1,176 1,671 1,421 1,504 -
TOTALS 5,087 19,934 19,282 19,967 22,427 13,706