Land, labor, and material costs are chipping away at home building's already thin margins

Larry Canarelli, developer and founder of Las Vegas-based American West Homes, recently announced that he sold the firm's home building and construction operations to PulteGroup.

California's affordability crisis has market economists pushing for more homes to be built as a solution, but many residents and local advocates worry that new market-rate structures will "supercharge" gentrification.

Rural Longmont, Colo. is undergoing a major zoning change that may bring in more new residents, and send home prices sky-high. 

Along with billions of dollars in new investments from companies like Amazon, Nashville is bringing in about 100 new people per day. Local leaders recently spoke at the Urban Land Institute's Spring Meeting in Music City.

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New construction activity is slowing, but a new study identifies 10 U.S. cities as new construction boomtowns, based on residential permit data

Nashville Yards, Music City's new billion dollar redevelopment project, "reimagines the gateway to downtown,” according to its developers, and seeks to be a model for a new generation of urban development.

The infusion of private capital from outside industries into affordable housing initiatives will change communities, and may change the framework of how shelter is delivered there