Housing Share of GDP: Housing Services Offsets Slight RFI Decline

With the release of the final estimates of second quarter 2016 GDP growth (revised up three-tenths to a 1.4 percent growth rate), housing’s share of gross domestic product (GDP) held steady at 15.7 percent. The home building and remodeling component—residential fixed investment—as a share of GDP declined slightly to 3.5 percent.

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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...

Building a Pipeline to Ease the Labor Shortage

For several years, the KCHBA has been working with area schools to provide students with the opportunities available to them in the residential construction industry. The KCHBA’s Workforce Development Committee hosts se...

Fox4’s Kathy Quinn Visits the Parade of Playhouses at Union Station

Fox4's Kathy Quinn visited the Parade of Playhouses at Union Station last week and spoke with Belton High School's Architecture and Construction teacher Matt McCann, his students and KCHBA's Community Relations Director Jordy...