Housing starts held broadly steady in October, leaving the modest upward trend of recent months intact. But the bigger picture is that starts are on course to total just 600,000 or so in 2011 as a whole and only slightly more next year. That would leave them well below the 1 million or so that is broadly consistent with a healthy market.
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