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NAHB MEMBER BENEFITS<br />
About NAHB<br />
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) helps<br />
its members build communities. Each year, NAHB’s<br />
members construct about 80% of the new homes built in<br />
the United States, both single-family and multifamily.<br />
A federation of more than 800 state and local associations,<br />
NAHB represents more than 140,000 members. About<br />
one-third are home builders and remodelers. The rest work<br />
in closely related specialties such as sales and marketing,<br />
housing finance, and manufacturing and supplying<br />
building materials.<br />
NAHB is member-driven, with more than 2,200 members<br />
serving on the association’s board of directors, which elects<br />
the Senior Officers and helps set the association’s agenda.<br />
Since it was founded in the early 1940s, NAHB has served<br />
as the voice of America’s housing industry. We work to<br />
ensure that housing is a national priority and that all<br />
Americans have access to safe, decent and affordable<br />
housing, whether they choose to buy a home or rent.<br />
Achieving that goal is increasingly difficult in today’s<br />
contentious and unsettled political and financial<br />
environment, one in which the concept of homeownership<br />
as a national priority is very much under attack. We<br />
champion laws and regulations designed to reverse this<br />
dangerous course that will drive down the value of the<br />
nation’s housing stock, drive up the cost of rental housing,<br />
and threaten the economic recovery.<br />
Meeting its members’ business needs and ensuring that<br />
they have the tools and resources necessary to succeed is an<br />
equally important task, so NAHB also provides educational<br />
opportunities, including the International Builders’ Show or<br />
IBS, the single most important event of the year for the home<br />
building industry and the world’s largest show of its kind for<br />
the residential and light commercial construction industry.<br />
NAHB’s affiliates include Home Innovation Research<br />
Labs, which develops, tests and evaluates new materials,<br />
methods, standards and equipment to improve the<br />
technology and the affordability of America’s housing;<br />
HBI, our workforce development arm, which develops and<br />
administers a wide range of educational and job training<br />
programs; and the National Housing Endowment, our<br />
philanthropic arm, dedicated to helping the housing<br />
industry develop more effective approaches to home<br />
building, enhancing education and training for future<br />
generations of leaders in residential construction and<br />
increasing the body of knowledge on housing issues.<br />
NAHB is also a founding partner and member of the<br />
International Housing Association, which works to advance<br />
home building around the globe with educational<br />
programs and entrepreneurial opportunities.<br />
NAHB members get the very best information, advocacy,<br />
education and networking opportunities in their Three-in-<br />
One Membership! When you join your local association,<br />
you automatically become a full member at the state and<br />
national level. That’s three memberships for the price of<br />
one. NAHB offers plenty of resources to help each member<br />
make the most of this investment and connect with the<br />
benefits they value most.<br />
WHAT’S INSIDE MEMBERSHIP...<br />
Government Services and Programs (Advocacy,<br />
Legal Services, BuildPAC) to help you defeat excessive<br />
regulations and defend affordable housing initiatives on<br />
Capitol Hill, in your state and in the communities where<br />
you do business. That puts money and time back in your<br />
pocket! Plus, NAHB members are kept informed with<br />
prompt regulatory and legislative alerts.<br />
Critical News and Information through e-newsletters,<br />
listservs, online publications, exclusive website content,<br />
bulletins and special reports. For more than 60 years NAHB<br />
has been the nation’s leading source for housing industry<br />
information. Up-to-date information, when you want it,<br />
how you want it!<br />
Invaluable Networking Opportunities with<br />
more than 140,000 members from all areas of the<br />
industry, NAHB is a one-stop networking shop! From<br />
local networking receptions and monthly membership<br />
meetings to regional trade shows, national committees<br />
and special-interest councils, NAHB provides hundreds of<br />
ways for you to meet and build relationships with fellow<br />
professionals, future customers and suppliers.<br />
Nationally Recognized Educational Programs that<br />
give you the tools to gain an edge in the industry. In<br />
our competitive marketplace, differentiation is the key<br />
to success and NAHB’s nationally recognized education<br />
programs offer just that. NAHB Education offers hundreds<br />
of educational programs through conferences, courses<br />
(both traditional classroom and online) and Webinars. No<br />
matter what your specialty is, NAHB has the curriculum,<br />
instructors and prestige to boost your success. Learn how<br />
to reduce costs, increase your profit margins and effectively<br />
deal with today’s toughest issues through NAHB Education.<br />
Access to NAHB’s Team of Expert Advisors who can<br />
address your specific business questions. When you<br />
become an NAHB member, you get instant access to our<br />
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