NBN Online for the week of July 24, 2006

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In This Issue:

Front Page
NAHB Interest Rate Concerns Arise in Bernanke Testimony
Share Nation's Building News With Your Staff. It's Free.
Builders Step Up Response to Job Site Thefts
Layouts for Living
Floor Plans: High-End Homes Command Inner Harbor Views
Coast to Coast
Southland Rents Soar
Economics & Finance
Housing Starts Slide in June
Uncertainty Over Fed Helps Sink Builder Confidence
A Few States Defying Downward Trend in Housing
Tips
Builder's Tip: A Tool to Make Seamless Stucco Patches
Business Management
For a Better Bottom Line: Read What ‘BoB’ Has to Say
Custom Home Builders, Have We Got an Award for You
Multifamily
Costly Mailbox Rules Take Effect in September
Remodelers
Remodelers Discuss Housing Needs of Disabled Veterans
Commercial
Commercial Builders Awards of Excellence Deadline Aug. 18
International
Trade Mission to Explore Niche Opportunities in Mexico
Education
Want to Know More About Designations? Ask an Expert
Education Calendar
Research
Redesign Makes ToolBase Web Site Easier to Use
Green Building
Seminar Proposals Sought for Green Building Conference
Regulation
NAHB Study to Gather Data on Wetlands Permit Times
Legal
Law Improves New Hampshire Application Process
Workforce housing
Apply for 2006 Workforce Housing Awards
Labor
CRAFT Students Serve the Community in Jackson, Mississippi
Building Products
Distribution Stepped Up for ‘Paint-On’ Projection Screen
TV
NAHB-Produced Programs on HGTV & DIY This Week
Endowment
Endowment Awards $100,000 HELP Grant to Maryland School
Association News
UPS Offers Up to 30% Discount to NAHB Members on Shipping
GM $500 Exclusive Offer for NAHB Members
Find Key Employees Through the NAHB Online Career Center
Fall Board Meets Sept. 13-17 in Salt Lake City
Calendar of Events
NAHB Career Center

Apply for 2006 Workforce Housing Awards

NAHB is now accepting entries for the Innovations in Workforce Housing Awards (IWHA) recognizing outstanding examples of workforce housing communities across the nation that provide decent and affordable homes for nurses, police officers, schoolteachers, retail workers and the like near areas in which they work.

The awards also serve to increase awareness of the workforce housing challenge and the ground-breaking solutions implemented by the housing industry, while encouraging builders, developers and related professionals to incorporate such innovative solutions into their own projects.

“These awards bring national attention to the workforce housing problem and to the creative ways in which builders and developers are increasing the supply of housing that is affordable to working families,” said NAHB President David Pressly.

IWHA is open to builders, architects, designers, developers and land planners nationwide. Communities that have been completed, or in which the first model has been opened or the first unit has been occupied between Jan. 1, 2004 and Oct. 27, 2006, are eligible to enter.

Entries must be postmarked by Oct. 27.

Winning entries will be selected by a panel of builders, multifamily and land development experts and other industry professionals. Winners will be announced at the 2007 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla. in February.

For specific entry guidelines and an entry form, click here.

For more information on the awards, click here; or e-mail Blake Smith at NAHB, or call him at 800-368-5242 x8583.


 

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