What is more fearsome to home builders than a prodigious wood-eater like the Formosan termite... the bugs or a law written to curb their spread? Louisiana builders, until recently, would have pointed to the law.

Miami architect (and traditional neigh-borhood development pioneer) Andres Duany believes TND is the cure for the epidemic of anti-growth political move-ments now sweeping across America’s most vibrant housing markets.

Miami architect (and traditional neigh-borhood development pioneer) Andres Duany believes TND is the cure for the epidemic of anti-growth political move-ments now sweeping across America’s most vibrant housing markets.

Although the pace of growth and traffic congestion in their communities concern Americans, they prefer accommodating growth by expanding and improving infrastructure such as roads and schools rather than limiting it through regulation.

This past November, the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio ruled that Centex Homes cannot enforce the protion of its contracts requiring buyers to waive the guarantee that their new homes are 'habitable' and made with 'good and workmanlike construc..

For more than three decades, California home builders have battled their state’s peculiar application of strict product liability laws to housing construction.

Having long ago stopped being seen as simply providers of "trailer" homes, the manufactured housing industry has made huge strides during the past two decades.

A California developer agreed last month to pay $9 million to settle a construction defect lawsuit than go to trial.

An important provision of tax legislation recently passed by congress would expand funding for the Low-Income housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, spurring the creation of 28,000 additional units of affordable rental housing every year.