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Today's legal landscape for home building contributes to the crisis in affordable housing. As cities, counties and states cope with their own mounting fiscal shortfalls, the robust housing sector looks like a fruitful feeding ground for new sources of ..

Track Permit Statistics, Free and Easy

By tracking residential building permits issued in a city, county, metropolitan area or state and comparing trends, a builder can learn a lot for free.

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Paradise Lost

Think twice before developing large, controversial parcels.

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Compact Plans Could Lower Services Costs

Building higher-density communities with tighter infrastructure designs and community services can save significant costs, according to The Brookings Institution's Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy.

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Highway Study Could Help Developers

Traffic can delay or doom a community plan, but a report by the American Highway Users Alliance, 'Unclogging America's Arteries: Effective Relief for Highway Bottlenecks (1999-2004),' gives a handy heads-up to developers scouting for residential locati..

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Enforcing Design, Construction Guidelines Minimizes Conflict

High Desert, a community in Albuquerque, N.M., maintains design and building guidelines - and a mechanism for inspection and enforcement of them to reduce conflicts between developer, builder and home buyer.

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'Overprice' Premiums for More Profit

Whether you’re charging a million-dollar premium for a custom home on the ocean or $10,000 for a cul-de-sac production home, that premium could be too low.

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Woodside Glen

It’s the typical builder story: Find a great piece of land, spot a market segment to which nobody else delivers and pick the right product. Easy, right? Not when NIMBY neighbors get involved.

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State Rallies Allies for Smarter Growth Policy

What can builders do when faced with opposition from anti-growth groups and a governor's unfriendly smart growth policy?

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A Method to Monitoring Madness

Monitoring Land & Housing Markets: An Essential Tool for Smart Growth details a new method for monitoring land.

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