The Furman Center has just released its State of the City Report for 2008, and there’s some interesting data about how Brooklyn’s residents and housing stock are faring:

Housing indicators suggest that the Brooklyn housing market fared relatively well through 2007. In Brooklyn, the only housing type to experience a drop in prices in 2007 was 24 family buildings. Brooklyn has the City’s second most expensive single-family housing stock. Brooklyn was one of only two boroughs to see a rise in new residential building permits in 2007. Home ownership in Brooklyn declined slightly from 32.3% in 2006 to 30.6% in 2007.

Despite its resilience in 2007, Brooklyn may not be immune to the effects of the housing market downturn in the coming years. Lending and foreclosure trends in Brooklyn are much the same as in the rest of the City: the borough experienced declines in all lending activities and increases in notices of foreclosure. Brooklyn had the second highest foreclosure rate of all the boroughs, with 22.4 notices of foreclosure per 1,000 14 family properties in 2007. Brooklyn also had the second highest rate of serious housing code violations: 61.4 per 1,000 rental units.

Here’s one interesting tibit we picked up: Only 17 percent of the housing stock in Greenpoint and Williamsburg is owner-occupied while in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights it’s more than 40 percent. Lots of other stats in the Brooklyn section of the report.