With the downturn in the housing market drawing to a close, housing should soon start to boost economic growth. But as housing now makes up only a small share of the economy, the sector is unlikely to add much more than 0.2 percentage points to annual GDP growth in each of this year and next. So although housing may soon support growth, it won’t help much.
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