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• Ending a Federal Role for Housing Finance Would Destabilize Market, Congress Told
• An Open Mind and Industry Support Keep Five Builders Very Much Alive
• Glass Products React to Heat and Light, Provide New Designs and Textures

• Layouts For Living
• Floor Plans: Modular Interpretation Brings Colonial-Era Farmhouse Into 21st Century

• Coast to Coast
• With Business Way Down, Local Home Builders Trying to Hold On

• Politics and Government
• Impeding Flow of FHA Finance Would Be a Setback for Home Buyers, NAHB Testifies

• Economics and Finance
• New-Home Sales Rise 7.3% in April as Inventory Dwindles
• Housing Starts Fall 10.6% in April as Consumers Remain Reticent
• Housing Affordability at Record Level, But Tight Financing Constrains Sales
• Analysts Advocate Less Federal Support for Housing, More to Overhaul U.S. Economy
• Eye on the Economy: Housing Market Continues to Disappoint
• Useful Links to Monitor Economic and Housing Trends

• Tips and Techniques
• Builders’ Tip: How to Fabricate the Simplest Trim Rack Ever

• Membership
• Membership Day Recruits More than 3,600 New NAHB Members

• Disaster Relief
• Builders in Joplin Among Those Digging Out of Worst Tornado in Half a Century

• Multifamily Housing
• Coalition Urges HUD to Improve FHA’s Condo Mortgage Approval Process

• Small Builders and Remodelers
• Remodeling Shaping Up as a Bright Spot for the Housing Industry
• Lead Rule Violation Caught on YouTube Spurs EPA Enforcement Action Against Contractor

• Sales and Marketing
• Overtime Statistics Indicate It’s Time for Salespeople to Get Ready to Get Back to Work
• Promote National Homeownership Month in June With NAHB Resources

• Commercial Building
• Slow Spring Has Overall Construction Spending Outlook for 2011 Looking Flat at Best
• Applications for Commercial Builders’ Awards of Excellence Open Through August 1
• Freestar Bank Project Makes Bailey Edward Architecture a Star

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• June 1: Webinar Provides Builders a Guide to Better Appraisals
• June 8: Webinar to Discuss How Salespeople Can Approach Financing With Buyers

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• June Meeting to Produce Draft of 2012 National Green Building Standard

• Green Building
• Energy Retrofits, Consumer Education Could Shape the Future of Green Housing
• Energy-Use Monitoring a Trend to Watch in Green Home Technologies

• Safety
• OSHA Refuses to Extend Deadline for Fall Protection Guidelines
• OSHA Allows Alternative Written Fall Protection Plan When Certain Requirements Are Met

• Legal Issues
• Legal Action Grants Approved to Challenge Fees, Endangered Species Regulations

• National Housing Endowment
• Maryland Builder Robert Mitchell Named Chairman of the National Housing Endowment

• Association News
• NAHB Presidents Conine, Rayburn, Wilson Among Five Inducted Into Housing Hall of Fame
• Active Associate Member in Seattle Builds Relationships, Garners New Business
• Be Productive With Lightweight Slate 500 Tablet PC From HP
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