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Trade Contractors

To Ease the Labor Shortage, We Need a Game-Changer

Is wider embracing of pre-assembled systems part of the solution?

Economics

Homes: The Gold Standard

The idea of houses as investments has done us no favors in this country

Land Planning

A New, Leaner Urbanism Is Taking Hold

Advocating an alternative to the highly regulated planning within TNDs.

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Best Practices

Water Conservation Awareness on the Rise

There's more public awareness of the need for water conservation, but the U.S. still has the highest per capita water consumption in the world

Awards

Learning From the Best

Ever since the housing industry started making its very tentative way back after the end of the Great Recession, there’s been a great deal...

Sales + Marketing

Getting the Message Out

With buyers still relatively scarce, home builders have to be shrewder than ever with their sales and marketing strategies in order to be...

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Working toward quality management

In the October issue, we announce the winners of this year’s National Housing Quality Awards: gold award recipients DSLD Homes and EYA, and...

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An opportunity to do what you do best

Twenty-five years ago, a group of Orange County, Calif., BIA members launched a program to help address the problem of homelessness in their...

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New products offer a competitive advantage

When home builders are asked which information they deem most critical to the improvement of their businesses, info about new products is...

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Good design for all

We are living in a new era of design. No longer reserved just for the rich or those with artistic sensibilities, good design has become...

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Better, not bigger

From 1950 to 2013, the average new home in the United States grew from 983 square feet to 2,673 square feet, a hefty 172-percent increase in...

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Advantage, Housing Giants

Some years ago, a small production builder told me that he didn’t want his company to get too big. Smaller companies were nimble, he...

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Rites of spring

Spring is here, regardless of the fact that it is snowing in the D.C. area as I write this at the end of March, and it’s the beginning,...

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Solving housing's labor problem

Although recovery for home building has been looking up for a while—with new-home starts in 2013 up 18 percent over 2012 and new-home sales...

To Ease the Labor Shortage, We Need a Game-Changer

Homes: The Gold Standard

A New, Leaner Urbanism Is Taking Hold

Water Conservation Awareness on the Rise

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

Renters Are Choosing Single-Family Homes for These Features