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
Outlier Effect: What Builders Can Do, Other Than Wait For A Rate Cut
Despite the odds, every operator is looking to bend their price barriers with every operational, design, and construction tactic they can employ in today's dodgy market.
Policy
A Leadership Moment Of Truth Comes With Rulings, Reactiveness
Industry and business community leaders must see beyond polarized agendas and transient business trends. Lasting profitability goes with an essential ride-along – brave and steadfast purpose.
Policy
Add To The Blueprint To Address Housing's Affordability Crisis
For each of the 10 barrier-lowering imperatives builders call on policymakers to adopt in this blueprint, there are operational, strategic, tactical, and business-cultural changes builders can and need to evolve to truly and accountably commit to "doing their part."
Policy
Inclusionary Housing: Affordability Crisis Solution Or Policy Mirage?
Scott Cox examines fresh data evidence underlying one of U.S. localities' widely trending housing attainability policy -- and electability -- strategies. Here is his take on five better ways to make progress.
Policy
Affordability Efforts Abound ... With Unintended Consequences
It is hard to shake the feeling that, in trying to solve our housing problems by selectively building for a small portion of specific classes of people, we are creating a more rigid community of haves and have-nots instead of solving the root causes of insufficient building.
