More than 1,000 Housing Professionals Urge Congress to Act on Key Affordability Issues

NAHB members prepare for the 2025 Legislative Conference

More than 1,000 builders, remodelers and associates engaged in all facets of the residential construction industry trekked to Capitol Hill today to urge their lawmakers to support policies that will help builders unleash the housing market by allowing them to increase the production of quality, affordable housing.

“Members of the housing community from across the nation have come to Washington for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) 2025 Legislative Conference to deliver an urgent message to their lawmakers: The best way to ease the nation’s housing affordability crisis and boost housing production is to break down the barriers that are impeding new home and apartment construction,” said NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes, a home builder and developer from Lexington, N.C.

In more than 250 meetings with their representatives and senators, housing advocates urged lawmakers to act on three key issues that can have an immediate impact on housing affordability READ MORE