Housing Starts Fall, Permits Rise
Housing starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.126 million, 3.0 percent below the revised July estimate of 1.161 million, but 16.6 percent higher than the August 2014 rate. Housing activity fell in three of the four regions, with starts falling 33.7 percent in the Northeast, 9.8 percent in the Midwest, and 1.1