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The National Association of Home Builders is a trade organization that works on helping home builders across the nation change policies on both the state and local level to help and support the housing industry. The organization has helped to shape the housing industry since 1942; today, there are more than 200,000 members and over 800 state and local associations.
The NAHB, as it’s known, has chapters in every state, in most major cities. They offer a wide range of training programs for industry professionals and they provide informational resources for members, the housing industry and the public.
Information published by the National Association of Home Builders relates to construction and housing and covers topics ranging from new home financing for home buyers to industry policies, data, and trends for home builders. If it involves the housing industry, the NAHB offers information about it online or in one of their many publications.
In addition, they sponsor events such as the International Builders Show in Las Vegas and local charitable community projects through their Home Builders Care initiative.
They also act as an agent for home buyers, helping to point out affordable housing and being an arm for complaints against home builders who might not be following accepted business practices. Their mission and vision statements are as follows:
Mission
NAHB exists to represent the building industry by serving its members and affiliated state and local builders associations. To achieve an overall mission of member satisfaction, NAHB concentrates on the following goals:
* Balanced national legislative, regulatory, and judicial public policy.
* Public appreciation for the importance of housing and those who provide it.
* The premier resource for industry information, education, research, and technical expertise.
* Improved business performance of its members and affiliates.
* Effective management of staff, financial, and physical resources to satisfy the association’s needs.
Vision
NAHB strives to create an environment in which:
* All Americans have access to the housing of their choice and the opportunity to realize the American dream of homeownership.
* Builders have the freedom to operate as entrepreneurs in an open and competitive environment.
* Housing and those who provide it are recognized as the strength of the nation.
Lately the NAHB has been working with home builders to produce more green homes through their research center, making the news by making recommendations to home builders as well as sponsoring homes competing for prizes based on green designs.
As an organization dedicated to improving the housing industry, consumers, Realtors and home builders should be aware of their efforts and they information they provide.
See Also:
NAHB Research Center
NAHB Membership Benefits
2010 International Builders Show
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Mitch Mitchell is a consultant who writes and participates in many different fields, including real estate finance issues. 
As I’ve said in many of my posts here, anyone who promotes ‘green’ building gets my vote!
It is always nice to have companies that represent your industry well and promote the important aspects relevant to the consumers. Good for NAHB on staying on top of the issues at hand.
Cool, I just learned something new today, now I know what NAHB stands for! We should have something like that here in the UK.
-Adam
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I am curious on how the NAHB is addressing the serious downturn in new construction and whether there will be long term impact on the home construction industry. As long as there is excess inventory building will continue to be in a moribund situation. The flight of skilled craftsmen and labor seeking immediate vocational opportunities else where may also hamper the comeback.
Silly as it sounds, there are a lot of cities and homeowners associations that have regulations that prevent installation of solar panels on new homes. Someone needs to get in there and get them to alter these rules. Solar panels are not in keeping with the way people expected homes to look when these rules were written, but they’re the right way to go and we need to change our expectation of how houses should look.
The way I understand it, NAHB is here to help the construction industry along with supporting the home builders and the public. If I have this understanding correct, I would like to know, where was NAHB when the Consumer Protection Laws enacted more than a decade ago in Texas illustrated how proper governing can go along way in protecting home owners and is likely to save Texas from a major housing crash. Laws were passed by the State Legislature to initially protect Subprime morgage borrowers in 1998. Capping the amount of financeing for all Texans at 80%. This halted some of the risky lending practices. IF THE TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE WAS ABLE TO LOOK OUT AFTER THEIR PEOPLE, MY QUESTION IS DID NAHB TRY THE SAME THING FOR THEIR PEOPLE?? If they did bring this concern to our government, why were the people not protected like Texas did??