Putnam County Mayor Randy Porter reporting another strong month of new construction in August Thursday.
The county doubled its construction permits compared to last year. August had 31 permits for $6.7 million of construction. Twenty-three of those were new single family homes. That compared to August 2021 which saw 12 permits for $3 million.
Porter said in a release the numbers only include the county, not the four cities. So far since 2014, 1,553 new single family homes have been built in rural Putnam County
