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Trump executive order targets regulatory barriers to homebuilding

Affordable housing, Housing Policy, Policy, The Builder's Daily /

The White House announced on Friday afternoon its effort to challenge what it calls “unnecessary regulatory barriers” to homebuilding by issuing a broad executive order to reduce environmental, permitting and programmatic restrictions that federal officials say are contributing to the nation’s housing affordability crisis. The order, signed by Donald Trump, directs multiple federal agencies to […]

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Contrarian Smith Douglas leans into its system, goes for market share

Earnings, Homebuilders, Leadership, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Uncertainty, margin compression and the gut-check math of affordability are the givens of a new-home market impatiently waiting for relief on at least one of those three fronts.  Most public homebuilders – facing this indefinite limbo – are doing the same thing: slowing down. Production starts are throttling down. Spec inventory is being sold down.

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Local fees trap state housing affordability reforms in a vicious circle

Affordable housing, Housing Policy, Policy, The Builder's Daily, Zoning /

Procedural and zoning barriers are proving to be only the beginning of the gauntlet for adding new ground-up residential supply to America’s housing-starved communities. While removing red tape and outdated zoning laws might formalize more homes on paper, local fee structures still decide whether those homes are actually built. California is a poster child for

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Can innovation, policy reform redeem manufactured housing’s image?

Affordable housing, Homebuilders, Manufactured Housing, Technology, The Builder's Daily /

What realistic, visionary, and wise players in the U.S. housing sector believe is that some solutions are already here, hidden in plain sight. Part of the problem is that what often hides those solutions from view is a past history, baggage or a whiff of negative reputation. Manufactured housing is among them. And, because of

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Builders started 2026 with margin pressure, then came Iran war risk

Construction, Homebuilders, Leadership, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Making less money but making steady headway may be a crude way to boil down what early 2026 was looking like for many homebuilding business leaders. Public homebuilder execs were not discussing a plain-and-simple “recovery trade.” The most consistent post-earnings themes – across demand, pricing, margins and capital strategy – indicated a market that is

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Compromise Indiana housing reform law trims local zoning power

Affordable housing, Housing Policy, Policy, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily, Zoning /

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun swiftly signed into law comprehensive state housing reforms after lawmakers spent weeks debating how much the state could and should override local zoning rules and design standards. The law adopts a softer approach to neutralizing local zoning authority after mayors, county commissioners and municipal planners complained that the initial bill overreached

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NAHB data maps modest housing affordability gains in 2025

Affordability, Homebuilders, Marketing & Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index, released on Thursday, indicates that housing affordability slightly improved in 2025 as new home prices decreased nationwide and mortgage rates steadily declined during the second half of the year.  The quarterly index shows that the average family needed to spend 34% of their

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New York’s housing crisis won’t be solved by one mega-project

Affordable housing, Housing Policy, Policy, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s attempt to revive an old plan to build 12,000 affordable units over a borough railyard is seen as a long shot, even if he gains support from President Trump. Mamdani has garnered headline attention for proposing to build units on a platform above Sunnyside Yard, a 180-acre freight and

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PulteGroup partners with SitecoreAI to bolster its marketing strategy

Homebuilders, Marketing, Marketing & Sales, Real Estate Technology, The Builder's Daily /

PulteGroup this week agreed to join the ranks of homebuilding enterprises that have adopted SitecoreAI, integrating the omnichannel digital content marketing platform into its marketing, sales and CRM tech stack to improve homebuying digital user experience.  SitecoreAI – used by global consumer marketers across a diverse array of business sectors – enables homebuilders to centralize

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What war risk could mean for builders, rates and spring demand in 2026

Construction, Homebuilders, Leadership, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Nature abhors a vacuum and does something about it. Homebuilders, their business and channel partners, their investors and lenders and their customers abhor uncertainty. But what can and will they do about it? Other than brace for more bumps. More air pockets. More “buying” of sales rather than selling of American households on houses that

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