{
  "publisher": "Frontera Signal",
  "series": "permits-monthly",
  "title": "Housing units authorized by permit, by month",
  "query": {
    "place": "Brownsville",
    "from": "2026-01"
  },
  "source": "public permit statistics",
  "cadence": "monthly",
  "months_available": [
    "2024-01",
    "2026-08"
  ],
  "fields": [
    "place",
    "county",
    "month",
    "units_total",
    "buildings_total",
    "valuation_usd",
    "single_family_units",
    "two_unit_units",
    "three_four_unit_units",
    "five_plus_unit_units",
    "single_family_buildings",
    "two_unit_buildings",
    "three_four_unit_buildings",
    "five_plus_unit_buildings",
    "status",
    "as_of",
    "age_days",
    "cadence",
    "stale",
    "source"
  ],
  "returned": 8,
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      "county": "Cameron",
      "month": "2026-01",
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      "buildings_total": 44,
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      "single_family_units": 43,
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      "status": "reported",
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      "stale": true,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
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      "county": "Cameron",
      "month": "2026-02",
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      "buildings_total": 55,
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      "three_four_unit_units": 0,
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      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
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      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": true,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
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      "month": "2026-04",
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      "buildings_total": 77,
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      "as_of": "2026-04-30",
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      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": true,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
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      "five_plus_unit_buildings": 1,
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      "age_days": 140,
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": true,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
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      "three_four_unit_units": 0,
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      "three_four_unit_buildings": 0,
      "five_plus_unit_buildings": 1,
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      "as_of": "2026-06-30",
      "age_days": 110,
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": true,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
      "county": "Cameron",
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      "three_four_unit_units": 0,
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      "three_four_unit_buildings": 0,
      "five_plus_unit_buildings": 2,
      "status": "reported",
      "as_of": "2026-07-31",
      "age_days": 79,
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": false,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
      "county": "Cameron",
      "month": "2026-08",
      "units_total": 97,
      "buildings_total": 63,
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      "single_family_units": 62,
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      "three_four_unit_units": 0,
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      "three_four_unit_buildings": 0,
      "five_plus_unit_buildings": 1,
      "status": "reported",
      "as_of": "2026-08-31",
      "age_days": 48,
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": false,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    }
  ],
  "year_to_date": [
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
      "county": "Cameron",
      "year": 2026,
      "through": "2026-08",
      "units_total": 940,
      "buildings_total": 525,
      "valuation_usd": 110314605,
      "single_family_units": 505,
      "two_unit_units": 0,
      "three_four_unit_units": 8,
      "five_plus_unit_units": 427,
      "single_family_buildings": 505,
      "two_unit_buildings": 0,
      "three_four_unit_buildings": 2,
      "five_plus_unit_buildings": 18,
      "as_of": "2026-08-31",
      "age_days": 48,
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "stale": false,
      "source": "public permit statistics"
    }
  ],
  "year_to_date_differs": [
    {
      "place": "Brownsville",
      "year": 2026,
      "through": "2026-08",
      "monthly_rows": 8,
      "sum_of_months_units": 768,
      "year_to_date_units": 940
    }
  ],
  "note": "New privately owned housing units authorized by building permits, as each city or county permit office reported them. A monthly row is that month's report. year_to_date is the running total the office filed for the year, with late reports and corrections, so for some places it is not the sum of the months; year_to_date_differs lists those places. Places with no row for a month reported nothing for it.",
  "disclaimer": "Every value carries as_of, age_days, cadence and stale (weekly measures go stale after 14 days, monthly measures after 90). dark = the source published nothing that week; no_reading = we have no reading for it. Ranges are {low, high, unit}; approx marks a rounded reading. Not a quote, bid or appraisal. Terms: https://fronterasignal.com/terms/"
}