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Tom Woods Elected to Leadership of NAHB

Posted on February 14, 2012

Tom Woods at NAHB Board Meeting Congratulations to Tom Woods on being the first HBA member elected to NAHB’s Executive Board at IBS last week. Tom will serve as Chair in 2015. With homeownership under attack, a m...

Fed Chairman Addressed Open Board Session at IBS

Posted on February 13, 2012

HBA members who attended the 2012 International Builders’ Show had the opportunity to hear Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke address a special session of the Board of Directors meeting, February 10. The HBA wants t...

Housing Finishes 2011 with 6 Percent Gain Over 2010

Posted on January 30, 2012

Multi-family housing units helped boost the overall residential permit statistics to higher territory in 2011 according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Permit Sta...

HBA Foundation Fund Makes Grants

Posted on January 11, 2012

The advisory board for the HBA Foundation Fund approved the following 2011 grants based on requests from the Board of Directors. Buzz Dulaney, HBA Foundation Fund Trustee, presents grant to Michael Snodgrass, Builders Deve...

Government Affairs Establishes Legislative Agendas

Posted on January 9, 2012

With Kansas and Missouri state legislators returning to work this month, the HBA Government Affairs Committee Steven Cowen, Staff Vice President for Government Affairs, and Mike Brown, Government Affairs Committee Chai...

More than 300 Homes on 2024 Spring Parade of Homes

The Spring Parade of Homes, open April 27 through May 12, offers the opportunity to see one of the largest and most impressive displays of new homes in the country. Sponsored by Mike Bryant Heating & Cooling, the spring p...

Fox4 Interview Ruder on KCHBA’s KCMO Proposal

“The end result that we’ve gotten with the code having been adopted in the way that it was and our efforts to comply with it is a historic reduction in new housing starts in Kansas City, Missouri,” KCHBA Executive Vice ...

KCHBA Announces Proposal to Reignite Housing Starts in KCMO

According to A Vision for Housing: Solutions for Kansas City, the city has a goal of creating 10,000 new, low-income housing units by 2027. Yet housing starts have dropped significantly in KCMO, while they are on the rise mos...