Housing
Texas: Housing Juggernaut
The Lone Star State continues to dominate when it comes to new home construction.
Despite all the obvious turmoil in the industry in recent years, new housing construction is soldiering on in the U.S. And according to new estimates out from the U.S. Census Bureau, Texas is still kicking every other state's housing-related butts.
Between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011, the U.S. saw an estimated increase of about 607,000 housing units. At the state level, Texas added more than 121,000 housing units, three times as many as its closest competitor, California, and about 20 percent of the total. Only two states saw their housing units go down: Michigan by 6,752 and West Virginia by 170.