Residential Construction

Building Permits Database 
SEMCOG collects and publishes residential building permit information for all 233 communities in Southeast Michigan. Both permit and demolition information are collected for single family, two-family, and multi-family units. Permit counts from mid-1969 to the present are available.

Annual Reports
Summary totals of building permits by county, community, and for the region are available in annual reports:

Residential Construction in Southeast Michigan, 2007 (PDF, 1.0 MB, April 2008)

Manufactured Housing
Manufactured housing parks are defined as those parks containing three or more sites licensed by the State of Michigan. The SEMCOG manufactured housing dataset includes the name and location of the park and number of sites within the park. You can download a table containing detailed information on individual parks from 2006, or a community summary report for those communities with at least one licensed park between 2000 and 2006 below:

2007 Manufactured Housing Parks Table (XLS, 118 KB) 

Manufactured Housing Parks and Sites in Southeast Michigan, 2007 (PDF, 65 KB)

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