Housing units permitted
Same Census count. Homes permitted from 2018 through 2025.
Years
2018–2025
Period. 2018–2025.
San Francisco. The other place. Each square is 1,444 homes — one San Francisco year.
Source. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, via FRED. New privately-owned housing units authorized. Dallas–Fort Worth and New York are the metro areas. San Francisco is the city. Bay Area suburbs are the rest of the SF–Oakland metro plus the San Jose metro. A permit is not a finished home. 2026 is incomplete, so it is left out.
Finished homes in the same year, from local counts: New York City about 34,000 (DCP Housing Database). San Francisco about 1,450 (Housing Inventory).