Medicine Hat - Housing Starts

Medicine Hat had 88 housing starts in 2019, precipitously declining -74.6% from 346 in 2018. The semi-detached segment had the largest increase over last year, increasing 11.1% to 20.

Definition: A Housing Start is defined as the beginning of construction work on a building, usually when the concrete has been poured for the whole of the footing around the structure, or an equivalent stage where a basement will not be part of the structure.