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Howard on List of Housing’s 50 Most Powerful Persons
 NAHB Executive Vice President and CEO Jerry Howard is given a prominent, number-three spot in this month’s Builder magazine listing of the 50 most influential people in home building, just behind Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
“Howard has won a well-deserved reputation for being a responsible voice for the home building industry,” writes Steve Zurier, one of the five magazine editors who met to discuss who should be included on the 2006 year-end list.
“In the past,” he says, “the NAHB has pushed to revitalize the FHA, supported a guest-worker program for immigrant workers and issued a landmark study with the NAACP that addresses barriers to minority homeownership.”
Builder notes that Howard has been the top NAHB executive since February 2001.
Roughly half of the people on this year’s list were there at the outset two years ago, when Builder first began compiling the list of those who are playing a major role in the nation’s housing industry.
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