HBA Sponsors The Dollars and Sense of Development Patterns

Robert Dietz, Ph.D.

Your Home Builders Association is the sponsor of a discussion and presentation on May 19 of efficient development patterns in the Upstate.

What: The Dollars and Sense of Development Patterns
When: May 19, 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Where:  The Crowne Plaza, 851 Congaree Road, Greenville

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Produced by Ten at the Top and Upstate Forever, and also sponsored by the Greater Greenville Association of Realtors, The Dollars and Sense of Development Patterns is the second of four events this year intended to facilitate a discussion of facilitating a vibrant, growing, and efficient Upstate.

Keynote
The featured speaker is Joseph Minicozzi, AICP, principal of Urban 3, LLC, an Asheville-based real estate consultancy affiliated with Public Interest Projects.  Urban3 develops geospatial representations of economic productivity which is designed to change the way a community looks at the concept of urbanism and the value of well-designed cities.  Their case studies help drive planning strategies and tax policies related to urban development patterns.

NAHB Economist
Also speaking will be Robert Dietz, Ph.D., Vice President of Ecomomics at the National Association of Home Builders.  Dietz will present a report of market trends and the results of NAHB's Consumer Preference Study, which focused this year on the preferences of millennials.

Dietz specializes in Tax and Market Analysis for NAHB, where his responsibilities include economic and legal analysis of tax and policy issues, as well as analysis of housing market data. Dr. Dietz has published academic research on the housing and tax issues in peer-reviewed journals. He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy on housing and tax issues. Prior to joining NAHB in 2005, Robert worked as an economist for the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, specializing in revenue estimation of legislative proposals involving housing, urban development, and other business tax issues. He is a native of Dayton, Ohio and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University in 2003.