Housing Growth and Land Use Principles

Resolved that NAHB supports comprehensive and coordinated land use planning policies that encourage housing availability, affordability, consumer choice, infrastructure readiness, and sustainable community growth, and such policies should:

1. Plan for projected population, economic, and housing growth in a timely and predictable manner using regularly updated housing needs assessments or housing studies while respecting private property rights and investments.
2. Maintain an adequate supply of land for residential development and a broad range of housing types, including, but not limited to, single-family detached, attached, multifamily, manufactured, missing middle, workforce, and other attainable housing.
3. Encourage zoning and development policies that support housing affordability, including all types of attainable housing types including missing middle housing.
4. Promote fair, predictable, and efficient development review and approval processes.
5. Support coordinated planning and investment in critical infrastructure, including roads, water, and sewer systems, and all other required utilities and to encourage the use of public funding, public-private partnerships, and incentives to ensure that critical infrastructure keeps pace with housing and economic growth.
6. Reduce unnecessary regulatory barriers or prescriptive architectural standards that limit housing production, innovation, and consumer choice.
7. Require land use policies that reflect local market conditions, community needs, and regional differences; and protect property owner’s rights and investments.
8. Ensure that land use and environmental policies are supported by agreed upon and quantifiable science, minimum standards based upon current conditions and needs of the community necessary to achieve a community’s growth objectives, cost-benefit analyses, and reasonable public review and comment.
9. Ensure that projects consistent with adopted plans and regulations should proceed through predictable and efficient approval processes without undue subjective or duplicative review, or repetitive public reconsideration.

Resolution originally adopted: 2026.10, Resolution No. 1

Committee with primary jurisdiction: Land Development Committee