NAHB Reports Record-High Lumber Prices are Hammering Housing Affordability

Soaring lumber prices are adding thousands of dollars to the cost of a new home, pricing out millions of potential home buyers and impeding the residential construction sector from moving the economy forward, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

"According to Random Lengths, the price of lumber hit a record high this week and is up more than 170 percent over the past 10 months," said NAHB chairman Chuck Fowke, a custom home builder from Tampa, Florida. "NAHB is urging President Biden and Congress to help mitigate this growing threat to housing and the economy by urging domestic lumber producers to ramp up production to ease growing shortages and to make it a priority to end tariffs on Canadian lumber shipments into the U.S. that are exacerbating unprecedented price volatility in the lumber market."