The National Association of Home Builders is asking architects, designers, developers and land planners nationwide to submit entries for the first annual Innovation in Workforce Housing Awards.
The awards will recognize outstanding communities across the nation that provide decent and affordable homes for workforce heroes, including nurses, police officers, schoolteachers and other service personnel, near areas in which they work.
Winning entries will be selected by a panel of builders, multifamily and land development experts based on criteria including exterior and interior design, sales success, construction quality/cost efficiency, successful management of any impediments and the level of cooperation among various stakeholders.
Communities completed or for which the first model opened, or the first unit was occupied, between January 1, 2002 and October 29 are eligible to enter. Winners will be announced at the 2005 International Builders Show in Orlando on January 13-16.