New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Un…
Starting with the 2005-02-16 release, the series reflects an increase in the universe of permit-issuing places from 19,000 to 20,000 places.
- Source
- FRED (St. Louis Fed)
- Rows
- 800
- Columns
- 2
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 27, 2026
- Theme
- housing
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Observation date (FRED API field date). |
| value | float | Observation value as published by FRED for this series; see the series notes for methodology and revisions. (unit: Thousands of Units) |
- Current
20260927T191508Z-1942c7283da7 · sha256 1942c7283da7…
800 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/building_permits_total_units" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/building_permits_total_units").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/building_permits_total_units
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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FRED (St. Louis Fed). (2026). New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Un… [Data set, snapshot 20260927T191508Z-1942c7283da7, sha256 1942c7283da7]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-27, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/fred/building_permits_total_units?snapshot=20260927T191508Z-1942c7283da7
@misc{dz_fred_building_permits_total_units_1942c728,
title = {{New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Un…}},
author = {{FRED (St. Louis Fed)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/fred/building_permits_total_units?snapshot=20260927T191508Z-1942c7283da7}},
note = {Snapshot 20260927T191508Z-1942c7283da7, sha256 1942c7283da71b4a72de349d3a44f99e94c38633b2673e7ea1bed2948f1b7117; accessed 2026-09-27}
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