Housing Starts Are Trending Upward!

Calculated Risk Blog reports housing "Starts in February were up 27.7% from February 2012; single family starts were up 31.5% year-over-year..." In CR's chart below, housing starts hit a 40+ year low in 2009. And while, we are still on the very low end of housing starts, the trend is up. Housing starts are thought by most experts to be a main driving force for the economy.