VIDEO SHOWCASE: NAHB Chairman delivers final remarks
With the International Builders Show in Las Vegas just weeks away, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Chairman Alicia Huey has provided her final remarks and update.
During Huey’s tenure home builders and potential buyers battled inflation and high mortgage rates. But housing starts have shown mixed signs of improvement while new home sales rose 8% in the final month of 2023.
Builder confidence also increased last month as mortgage rates began to recede. But housing affordability in the fourth quarter remained at a record low, according to the NAHB.
Huey, a Birmingham, Alabama-based custom home builder and developer with more than 30 years of experience in the home building industry, is president of AGH Homes, Inc. The firm is a custom home building company she founded in 2000.
AGH Homes specializes in high-end custom homes for buyers on individual lots, and the company also builds homes in Hoover, Alabama, and in several golf course communities in Vestavia.
Watch the video below to get Huey’s take on the current housing and home builder climate as she discusses achievements during her tenure as chairman.
Throughout her career, Huey has been active in the NAHB leadership structure at the local, state and national levels. She has served on the NAHB Board of Directors for more than 15 years. Huey has also chaired several NAHB committees, including BUILD-PAC, Professional Women in Building (PWB) and Membership.
Huey has also served on the State & Local Government Affairs and Public Affairs and Association Communications committees, and as a member of the Executive Board. In 2008, she was named NAHB’s PWB Woman of the Year.
At the local level, Huey was president of the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders in 2013, named the association’s Builder of the Year in 2012, and inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2008. Huey was named as the Builder of the Year by the Home Builders Association of Alabama in 2014.
Huey also is active in her community. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity for a decade, was honored as the organization’s 2011 Volunteer of the Year and served as chair of the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Birmingham from 2012-2014.
The outgoing leader will be succeeded as chairman this year by NAHB First Vice Chairman Carl Harris.
Harris is a Wichita, Kansas-based small volume spec and custom home builder with over 40 years of experience in the home building, remodeling and light commercial construction industry
