The construction of single-family homes in Tucson, Arizona, is beginning to be more and more common of a sight for locals.

Logic might indicate that, with the shortage of labor and construction materials, the rate of building new homes would slow down. But not in Tucson. Instead, single-family home construction has exploded, increasing from June 2020 to June 2021 by a whopping 46%.

Tucson isn't alone in this statistic. Rather, it's part of a trend nationally. The nearby city of Phoenix experienced an increase almost as staggering as Tucson, with single-family home construction jumping by 42% from June 2020 to June 2021. In some places, the exponential growth was even more noticeable; a pair of Florida markets (Ocala and Fort Myers) each saw increases of well over 75% from twelve months before.

These numbers across the United States of America serve as a legitimate reason to be positive about the national housing situation as the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be winding down. With demand for single-family housing increasing and the population continuing to grow, it's certainly not a bad time to be in the field of construction.

As for Tucson, the raw numbers themselves (as opposed to the percentages) are quite intriguing. In June of 2020- three months after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic- a total of 1,890 new single-family houses were constructed. This past June, that number was 2,750.