The National Green Building Standard ensures that homes are healthy, efficient, and sustainable, and is the most utilized third- party residential green building certification program in the United States.
Surging job losses in March stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a decline in U.S. median income and housing affordability in the first quarter of 2020, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.
Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell 15.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 627,000 units in March, coming off a downward revision in February, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.
The decline in April was the largest single monthly change in the history of the index and marks the lowest builder confidence reading since June 2012.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is urging members, and all residential construction companies, to halt work for at least 10 minutes on Thursday, April 16, to educate workers on what they should do to keep themselves safe from coronavirus and to help "flatten the curve" for everyone.
In an effort spearheaded by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), 90 companies and organizations called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate construction of single-family and multifamily housing as an "Essential Infrastructure Business."
Dean Mon, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) issued a statement regarding the Senate passage of the nearly $2 trillion stimulus package to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes edged one point lower to 74 in February, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
San Francisco, which has been the nation's least affordable major housing market for the past two years, was supplanted by Los Angeles in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) released on February 13, 2020.
Home builders across the country are prioritizing high-performance building practices in their projects, regardless if they consider the home they are building to be green, according to new research published in the 2020 Green Single Family and Multifamily Homes SmartMarket Brief.
