When you join the LAV chapter you automatically become a member of the other tiers of our organization at no additional charge.
The Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC) is a nonprofit trade association representing more than 2,000 member companies with 250,000 employees. Its mission is to promote and protect the industry to ensure members' success in providing homes for all Southern Californians. With new homes come new schools, new fire stations, parks and cultural centers. BIA/SC members – builders, subcontractors, remodelers, designers, architects, engineers – all work together to build communities for families to call home, and BIA/SC works diligently to support its members so that more Southern California families may realize the American Dream of home ownership.
The California Building Industry Association is a statewide trade association representing more than 6,700 companies including homebuilders, trade contractors, architects, engineers, designers, suppliers, and other industry professionals. By advocating legislative and administrative reforms needed to provide quality, affordable housing for all Californians, CBIA is working to remove barriers to housing construction that have resulted in a housing shortfall that helps make California's urban areas the most expensive housing markets in the nation and threatens our state's future economic health.
The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association whose mission is to enhance the climate for housing and the building industry. Chief among NAHB’s goals is providing and expanding opportunities for all consumers to have safe, decent and affordable housing. As “the voice of America’s housing industry,” NAHB helps promote policies that will keep housing a national priority.
NAHB's various groups analyze policy issues, take the industry’s story to the public through the media and other outlets, monitor and work toward improving the housing finance system, analyze and forecast economic and consumer trends, and educate, train and disseminate information to members. The association also represents the industry’s interests on Capitol Hill and strives to ensure that housing remains a national priority when laws are made and policies are established. NAHB also works with federal agencies on regulations affecting the housing industry in areas such as mortgage finance, codes, energy and the environment. Finally, the association strives to shape decisions of the courts, by becoming involved in litigation on land development, environmental, and construction liability matters.
