Housing Starts Revised Up to 1.37 million for July 2026

July 2026 housing starts was restated from 1.24 million to 1.37 million, a 10.5% upward revision. Anything indexed to the first print — escalator clauses, quoted material adders, budget baselines — now sits 10.5% away from the official number.

• As first published: 1.24 million (August 18, 2026)
• As restated: 1.37 million (October 20, 2026)

Revisions of this size are routine for survey-based series — early prints are built on partial responses and completed later — but routine does not mean harmless. The first print was published August 18, 2026; the restatement landed October 20, 2026. Both values remain queryable: the vintage archive pins every number this series has ever shown, so a contract that referenced the July 2026 print can cite exactly what was published and when.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau and HUD via FRED. The revised value is the agency's; the record of what it replaced is ours.