Mar 19 2021
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4Q20 Home Building Geography Index: Diversity Measures

By Housing
The topic of diversity, and its relationship to homeownership and home building, carries significant implications for policy making, social justice, and equity. In addition to the usual regional classification, NAHB’s Q4 2020 Home Building Geography Index (HBGI) provides a segmentation of the housing market based on county-level measurements of racial and ethnic heterogeneity. For this purpose, we use ESRI’s1 2018… Read More ›
Mar 19 2021
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A Full-Court Press on Lumber

By Industry News
NAHB continues to move rapidly and aggressively to engage the Biden administration on lumber and to urge policymakers to take immediate action to address skyrocketing lumber prices and supply shortages that are harming home builders, home buyers, remodelers and the economy.
Mar 18 2021
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Households Priced Out by Higher Interest Rates

By Housing
New NAHB 2021 Priced-Out Estimates showed that 75.1 million households are not able to afford a median priced new home, and that an additional 153,967 would be priced out if the price of a home goes up by $1,000. A second post presented the housing affordability pyramid, showing how many households have sufficient income to afford homes at various price… Read More ›