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Housing starts fell year-over-year in November and December, suggesting that buyers are reacting to a weak U.S. market.

New US residential construction declined in May to the slowest pace since the onset of the pandemic as an elevated inventory of homes for sale and high mortgage rates sapped the motivation to build.