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percent in the the reported Tuesday. The 13-state western region saw the greatest month-to-month increase in single-family-home permits of any regioh of the country. total housing construction permitsdeclined 52.3 percen t in April from the same month a year earlier, and single-famil y home permits declined 41.9 percent, the Censuw Bureau said in its latest monthlt report on new residential There were 106,000 housing permits issuedd in the West in April 2009, 79,00o of them for single-family units. Apri l housing-permit data for Denver are not yet In March, there were 278 new housing construction permits reportexd in the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield area, down 25.
9 perceny from the previous month. Theree were 139 single-family-home permits issued in the Denvert areain March, down 14.7 percenr from the previous Across the West, the lowest number of new permits in recent years was in February, when 101,000o permits were issued, the Census Bureau said. New permits have been trending downward in the West sincweFebruary 2007, when 417,000 were Nationwide, 494,000 housing permits were issued in down 3.3 percent from Marchg and down 50.2 percent from April 2008. Apripl permits for single-family homes nationallty were up 3.6 percenty from March and down 42.3 percengt from the previous April. in PDF format. and other U.S. metrpo areas.