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Bogotá.-The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) revealed this Tuesday that, in the first quarter of 2024, 45,888 housing units were started in Colombia, which meant an increase of 3.6% with respect to the immediately preceding quarter.
Of the total number of units started, 40,938 were for apartments and 4,950 for houses; 30,301 were for VIS housing (27,278 for apartments and 3,023 for houses) and 15,887 for housing other than VIS (13,660 for apartments and 1,927 for houses).
The 3.6% growth in the number of units started compared to the previous quarter was mainly explained by the 6.8% increase in low-income housing, which added 4.4 percentage points to this variation. On the other hand, housing starts for housing other than low-income housing showed a variation of -2.2% and subtracted 0.8 percentage points from the quarterly variation.
On the other hand, there was a decrease of 13.0% in units started in the first quarter of 2024, compared to the same quarter of 2023, when the total number of units started was 52,768. Low-income housing recorded a decrease of 9.1% and subtracted 5.7 percentage points from the annual variation.
Likewise, units other than low-income housing showed a variation of -19.9%, contributing -7.3 percentage points to the annual variation.
