Leadership

A Pivot To A 'Hearts And Minds' Mentality Can Alter Labor's Arc

People's "emotions and reasoning" would need to evolve before a solution to the No. 1 business risk for all organizations – tiny, small, medium, large, and giant -- doing business in the residential construction space can surface.

Leadership

Ways Out Of Housing's 'Vicious Circle' Crisis: #1 Guest Workers

If there's a way through and out of America's supply-demand vicious circle whose byproduct is less affordability, immigrants will play a present, near-term-, and long-term future role.

Leadership

Homebuilding's Backlog Logjam Weighs On 2022 Forecasts

It's crystal ball time in housing, and a number of factors bedeviling homebuilders' production and value cycles remain stubbornly resistant to modeling a plan. Welcome to a new normal of de-risking 2022 operations for uncertainty ahead.

Policy

Reg Burden's A Bane, But Fixing Rules Alone Doesn't Mean Gain

For those whose livelihoods stem from work producing homes in the housing crisis, each area of expertise looks through his or her own lens, and each assigns a different weight of importance to forces that impact that cost curve.