There are a number of factors that go into the overall outlook of the residential economy, such as unemployment rates and housing starts. Metrostudy, a provider of primary and secondary market information to the housing and residential construction industry, recently came out with its 2017 Q2 National Residential Economic Report. It’s predicting housing starts will continue to increase until 2019, when it will then plateau, but take a look at what else is predicted in the Video Spotlight.