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San Antonio Takes a Harder Line With Builders After Last Month's Hillside Collapse

A “slope failure” at a Centex subdivision exposes lax enforcement of permitting procedures.
Rebuilding Haiti Will Take More Than Just Money

Habitat for Humanity official: Helping Haiti will require overcoming a government in shambles, rampant poverty and the absence of building...
Sherman tightening building codes

SHERMAN -- Additional inspections during construction and more stringent requirements for new-home specifications are among changes...

Niagara Falls in forefront of seeking tax credits for those who rehab historical houses

Mar. 17--NIAGARA FALLS -- The city is one of the first communities in New York to aggressively urge owners of historically significant...
Growing popularity for home loans offered by New York State Mortgage Agency

Mar. 17--ALBANY -- The popularity of home loans offered by the New York State Mortgage Agency is growing, a rise likely tied to the credit...
New Jersey assembly approves new real estate development rule

Mar. 16--Legislation that would limit how much towns and cities can alter real estate development rules once projects are filed passed the...

Niagara Falls in forefront of seeking tax credits for those who rehab historical houses

Mar. 17--NIAGARA FALLS -- The city is one of the first communities in New York to aggressively urge owners of historically significant...
Growing popularity for home loans offered by New York State Mortgage Agency

Mar. 17--ALBANY -- The popularity of home loans offered by the New York State Mortgage Agency is growing, a rise likely tied to the credit...
New Jersey assembly approves new real estate development rule

Mar. 16--Legislation that would limit how much towns and cities can alter real estate development rules once projects are filed passed the...

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the NAHB in a dispute over handing Clean Water Act permitting authority over to states.

The NAHB's first venture before the U.S. Supreme Court as a named party resulted in a great victory for members earlier this summer. In a...
NAHB Briefs

- Online registration is now open for the 2008 International Builders' Show. - The NAHB urges lawmakers not to abandon efforts to overhaul...
Cost of Living

America is experiencing a serious housing affordability crisis that affects the quality of life of millions of families by locking them out...