About one million new single-family houses are built annually across the country, the vast majority by merchant builders.

The swing is built annually by an elder called a Dzoeuh Mah.

Approximately 6,000 units are built annually for the local market.

About 1,500 new adobes are built annually.

Fewer than 10,000 are to be built annually.

A government scheme could boost the number of homes built annually by up to 100,000.

During the same period, there was a decrease of 35 percent in the overall number of garages built annually.

Since 1996, new homes have increased in price by 32%, and there has been a 65.6% increase in the total amount of new dwellings built annually.

Dominic Wong explained that since 1988, it had been the Housing Authority who decided the target amount of public housing flats to be built annually.

Approval of the ambitious project jolted Novato, a city of 49,000 where only a few hundred homes are built annually.