NAHB’s History and Values

Vision Statement

Building Homes, Enriching Communities, Changing Lives

Mission Statement

NAHB strives to protect the American Dream of housing opportunities for all, while working to achieve professional success for its members who build communities, create jobs and strengthen our economy.

Core Values

• Commitment: We have an unwavering commitment to the industry and our mission.
• Dedication: We are dedicated to the fundamental value of an attainable place for all to call home.
• Integrity: We create a solid foundation for our professional network and communities to thrive.
• Collaboration: We are active partners with local and state associations to best respond to evolving industry and member needs.
• Trust: We are respectful, honest and transparent in our decision-making to fulfill our mission.

Our History and Membership

Since it was founded in the early 1940s, NAHB has served as the voice of America’s housing industry. We work to ensure that housing is a national priority and that all Americans have access to safe, decent and affordable housing, whether they choose to buy a home or rent.

NAHB helps its members build communities. Each year, NAHB’s members construct about 80% of the new homes built in the United States, both single-family and multifamily.

A Federation of more than 700 state and local associations, NAHB represents more than 140,000 members. About one-third are home builders and remodelers. The rest work in closely related specialties such as sales and marketing, housing finance, and manufacturing and supplying building materials.

NAHB is member-driven, with more than 1,700 members serving on the association’s Leadership Council, which elects the Senior Officers and helps set the association’s agenda.

Meeting its members’ business needs and ensuring that they have the tools and resources necessary to succeed is an equally important task, so NAHB also provides educational opportunities, including the International Builders’ Show, the single most important event of the year for the home building industry and the world’s largest show of its kind for the residential and light commercial construction industry.

NAHB’s affiliates include:

• Home Innovation Research Labs, which develops, tests and evaluates new materials, methods, standards and equipment to improve the technology and the affordability of America’s housing.
• HBI, our workforce development arm, which develops and administers a wide range of educational and job training programs.
• The National Housing Endowment, our philanthropic arm, dedicated to helping the housing industry develop more effective approaches to home building, enhancing education and training for future generations of leaders in residential construction and increasing the body of knowledge on housing issues.

NAHB is also a founding partner and member of the International Housing Association, which works to advance home building around the globe with educational programs and entrepreneurial opportunities.