In an attempt to reanimate a struggling re-election campaign that has been burdened by calls from within his party to step aside, President Biden is trying to shift his campaign’s focus to the challenges facing the housing market by calling for new federal rent...
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) called on Congress to support policies that will enable an increased level of affordable housing construction. Steve Martinez, a home builder from Boise, Idaho, testified today on behalf of NAHB during a House Small...
Sales of new single‐family houses during May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 619,000, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 11.3% below the revised April rate of 698,000 and...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes reached its lowest reading since December 2023, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). For June, the HMI dropped two points from...
Shawn Woods is president of Ashlar Homes LLC in Blue Springs, Missouri. This article is adapted and edited from testimony delivered last week on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s...
Zillow Cuts Its Late-2026 Home Sales Outlook as Rents Accelerate
