How many log homes were built in the U.S. in the past few years, per
year? The more recent the information the better. What is the trend in
this housing, growing or shrinking? I don't want the information in
terms of a report that I have to pay money for.

There's a lot of out-of-date information at the site of the Log Homes
Council, http://www.loghomes.org/, which is the sub-group of the
National Association of Home Builders. You'll find a link under Log
Homes Library to an assortment of white papers which don't go beyond
the 1990s. The only recent statistic I could find was:

According to Eric Fulton, communications manager at the Log Homes
Council in Washington, D.C., the number of log homes built annually in
New York increased nearly 47 percent from 1985 to 2001, the last year
for which statistics are available.

Suggestion -- contact the council directly. They'd be the keepers of
the information.
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