Canadian Home Builders’ Association Central Interior (180+ members)
At the local level, our focus continues to be: monitoring and participating in discussions with our municipal counterparts regarding DCCs and other issues pertaining to local residential building, growing the House and Home Show to promote our members and to educate the consumer on ‘green’ alternatives for homes, and represent positively the residential housing industry to the media and all levels of government. Over the past several years, your local has developed a solid public profile in the community and actively participates at both the provincial and national levels of the organization.
Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC (1500 members)
Our provincial association, CHBA BC, is focusing on our industry managing our own training and education needs via an independent Builder’s Institute, assisting government with the implementation of the Green Building Code, promoting the Built Green Program, and lobbying government on providing grants to municipalities for infrastructure development related to growth so that DCC’s are not used to totally accommodate infrastructure financial requirements.
Canadian Home Builders’ Association (8000 members)
At the National Level, CHBA’s priorities for 2008/09 are: the environment – and more specifically, the energy efficiency of the homes we build, and the environmental responsibility of our industry, the shortage of skilled people that we need in all areas of our businesses, the infrastructure investment that is critical to the future prosperity and quality of life in the communities we build, and the government-imposed costs that continue to drive up home prices. (Taken from the new President John Hrynkow’s inaugural address to the membership April 4, Whistler)