Yet housing starts are at a nine-year high in San Francisco.

然而旧金山的房屋开工率是9年来最高的。

A very good leading indicator is usually housing starts or housing permits.

一个非常好的领先指标通常是新屋开工或住房许可。

As worries have mounted this time round, American private housing starts have fallen by 20% since April.

由于这一次担忧加剧，美国私人房屋开工率自 4 月以来下降了 20%。

Retail sales, housing starts, personal income, gdp and, most crucially, inflation—all these reports will be suspended while the government is shut.

零售销售、新屋开工、个人收入、国内生产总值以及最重要的通货膨胀——所有这些报告都将在政府关门期间暂停。

Stopped by rules introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government, social housing starts collapsed after the 1970s, when they were running at up to 118,000 a year.

玛格丽特撒切尔政府推行新政停止了这些项目，保障性住房制度终于20世纪70年代以后瓦解了，当时建房的最高纪录是一年11.8万套。

New housing starts for all of 2012 were up in Indiana. So people seem to be ready to take out those loans, ready to get new houses built.

印第安纳州 2012 年全年的新房开工率都在上升。所以人们似乎准备好借出这些贷款，准备好建造新房。

If the additional demand is to be satisfied American builders will need to construct as many as 2m houses each year, according to Jefferies, an investment bank. That compares with housing starts of 1.6m in 2021.

根据投资银行Jefferies的说法，如果要满足这些额外的需求，美国的建筑商每年将需要建造多达200万套房屋。相比之下，2021年新屋开工数为160万套。

Even more worrisome, some of the trends, so for instance if you look at housing starts, how many new homes are brought to the market every year, that number has been declining since the 1970s.

更令人担忧的是一些趋势，例如， 如果你看一下房屋开工率，每年有多少新房进入市场，这个数字自 1970 年代以来一直在下降。