ottawacanadian housing starts rose in february from the previous month driven by construction on multifamily units like condominiums housing starts for february came in at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 247256 units an 8 increase from a revised 229185 units in the previous month canada mortgage and housing corp said tuesday market expectations had housing starts at about 240000 in february according to economists at td securities the trend measurea sixmonth moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts dipped slightly to 251579 units for february from 253864 units in the previous month in the february report cmhc said urban starts of multifamily units like condominiums and row houses increased by 13 to 161912 units while starts of singledetached urban homes rose 2 to 60651 units