Homebuilder Watch

HomeBuilderWatch is a project of LIUNA, the Laborers’ International Union of North America. LIUNA’s half -million members do the hard work every day of building our country and communities. LIUNA helps make construction a family-supporting career by working to improve wages, benefits and jobsite safety and with extensive, top-notch training programs. But now the entire industry – and in fact, our world economy – is facing massive job losses, falling wages, and devastated retirement security because of the housing market crash.

It’s a crisis caused in part by the big, corporate homebuilders who victimized employees and homebuyers.

HomeBuilderWatch is focused on improving the construction industry to make it stronger for workers, communities, and builders by:

• Raising wages and improving benefits and training for residential construction workers, and protecting their freedom to join together and collectively bargain with their contractors.
• Ensuring that homebuyers have access to affordable and sustainable mortgages from sources independent of the corporate builders they purchase a home from.
• Increasing the quality of new homes and making sure homeowners can effectively address construction deficiencies.
• Making sure that corporate homebuilders develop communities with the public interest and responsible development practices in mind.