During July through October, Durham, North Carolina has issued permits which would allow for 1,144 housing units to be built in the area. The same quarter in 2011 saw permits for only 294 units. There has been a similar increase in the value of the construction. The current permits are for $134.6 million, slightly less than triple that of the $48.3 million in the same quarter in 2011.

Many of the housing units will be in apartments. Single-family homes account for about twenty-five percent of the planned units, however, this is still an increase over the number of permits for single-family homes as compared to a year ago.