The construction industry is poised for a banner year in 2020 with permits for new housing issued in 2019 up 34 percent from the year before, according to numbers released by the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
The state’s municipalities approved 5,097 units, about 200 units shy of the previous post-recession high of 5,332 set in 2015.
Stamford and New Haven saw the biggest increases in number of units permitted in 2019 compared to 2018, with 1,087 OK’d in Stamford in 2019 – up from 106 the year before – and 699 approved in New Haven, a 239-unit increase over 2018.
Other top producers included Greenwich (207 units), Fairfield (232 units), Norwalk, (191 units) and Milford (195 units).
A majority of the units approved in 2019 – 59 percent – were located in buildings with five or more units, while 36.5 percent were single-family homes.





