Home Construction

Avi Friedman has some ideas of how to make housing more affordable. He says that the focus is too much on the mortgage and subsidies side and not enough on lower building costs.

Builder Magazine presents six lessons for builders to learn from the housing bust, including 'limit your land holdings', 'build smarter', and 'diversify beyond new-home construction'.

Engineers at USC have developed a new technique for '3-D printing' houses.

A new AIA report shows that new homes under construction are getting smaller in response to market forces.

Despite the housing downturn, houses in excess of 20,000 square feet are still being built by the very wealthy — with no sign of a slowdown.

An old-fashioned community barn-raising in Masonville, Texas could in fact be a glimpse of the future.

High gas prices and slowing construction rates in exurban areas may mean that the era of "driving until you qualify" for affordable housing may be over soon.