While orders and pre-sales of brand new United States households slumped by 10.5 percent, the most turgid drop in nine years, and orders and pre-sales in the Western U.S. pushing the direction with a declination of 29 percent, Tucson permit number continues potent at 1,644 for the first two months of 2006, a little grander than the record 1,622 permits registered within January and February of 2005.