dataset_id: fred-houst
title: U.S. housing starts
description: U.S. housing starts discovered from fred.stlouisfed.org.
source_name: fred.stlouisfed.org
source_url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=HOUST
update_frequency: monthly
next_scan_at: '2026-09-27T19:22:00.934893+00:00'
license:
  name: FRED Terms of Use; underlying series terms apply
  url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/terms/
tags:
- fred.stlouisfed.org
- economy
geography:
- United States
revisions:
- revision_id: 20260926192158-4a95f2ad07c0
  detected_at: '2026-09-26T19:21:58+00:00'
  source_updated_at: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:32:40 GMT
  context: HOUST.csv detected from fredgraph.csv.
  assets:
  - asset_id: asset-d531fdc59678e34d
    name: HOUST.csv
    source_url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=HOUST
    media_type: application/csv
    content_hash: d531fdc59678e34d58c9b885d77714e8da6e442b4da21935341a54eda575fc4d
    size_bytes: 12921
    parent_archive_id: null
  row_count: 812
  headers:
  - observation_date
  - HOUST
  sample_rows:
  - observation_date: '1959-01-01'
    HOUST: '1657'
  - observation_date: '1959-02-01'
    HOUST: '1667'
  - observation_date: '1959-03-01'
    HOUST: '1620'
  - observation_date: '1959-04-01'
    HOUST: '1590'
  - observation_date: '1959-05-01'
    HOUST: '1498'
  parser_errors: []
  logical_asset_id: 835ded8c643c20cdcce1cb33
related_dataset_ids: []
quality:
  score: 100
  parsing_errors: []
  stale_warning: null
  broken_source_report: null
rss_feed_url: null
odc_version: '0.1'
last_successful_scan_at: '2026-09-26T19:21:58+00:00'