Policy
Building For Tomorrow Today: Neighborhood Scale Resilience
How IBHS’s Fred Malik and the FORTIFIED program are redefining risk, reshaping design, and restoring trust through science-backed, community-wide resilience. Malik takes a deep dive into the issues and implications for builders with contributor Richard Lawson.
Policy
Construction Talent Of The Future Is Here, ... Hidden In Plain Sight
We come to the end of the beginning of a new decade with plenty of good reason to celebrate stunning achievement in the face of challenge. Too, a new future of work in building has only just begun to make an impact.
Policy
Economic Force Alone Won't Fix What Ails Housing Affordability
Land entitlement -- and residual property values -- hold crucial keys to solving for the 'most important question facing the housing field.'
Policy
Steps Toward Reform: Get Past The NIMBY Versus YIMBY War
Housing affordability – when it comes to working households' access to homes near where they work – comes down to the ground, its entitlement, and the first costs and carrying expense of getting title to the dirt.
Policy
The Near- And Medium-Term Future Of Housing Is On '22 Ballot
The 2022 midterm elections will likely meaningfully impact lives, livelihoods, assets, entities, and going-concerns orbiting the sphere of homes, neighborhoods, shelter, and what it will take to make more of them all.
Policy
Confidence Or Not, Now's Time To Look At Challenge As Opportunity
As builder sentiment finds its floor, here's a longterm-ist look at where to focus.
