{"id":739118,"date":"2026-06-15T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:03:18","slug":"housing-starts-fall-6-in-may-cmhc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739118\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing starts fall 6% in May, CMHC says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New homes are constructed in Ottawa in August, 2023.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May fell six per cent compared with April.<\/p>\n

The agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts came in at 261,377 units for May, down from 278,380 in April.<\/p>\n

The six-month moving average for May edged up 0.5 per cent to 258,010 units compared with 256,646 in April.<\/p>\n

The results came as CMHC says the number of units under construction in centres with a population of 50,000 or more rose 0.9 per cent month-over-month to 374,662 in May, while completions rose 10.6 per cent compared with April to 16,880 units.<\/p>\n

The number of units with approved building permits but not yet started was down 2.4 per cent month-over-month to 138,842 units in May.<\/p>\n

The seasonally adjusted annual rate of rural starts was estimated at 14,357 units for May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: New homes are constructed in Ottawa in August, 2023.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-739118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}