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David Crowe, Ph.D., is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Dr. Crowe is responsible for NAHB’s forecast of housing and economic trends, survey research and analysis of the home building industry and consumer preferences as well as microeconomic analysis of government policies that affect housing.
Dr. Crowe is also responsible for the development and implementation of an innovative model of the local economic impact and fiscal cost of new home construction, which has estimated the net impact of new housing in over 500 local markets. Past research has concentrated on home ownership trends, tax issues, demographics, government mortgage insurance, local land use ordinance impacts and the impacts of housing on local economies.
Before becoming NAHB’s Chief Economist, Dr. Crowe was NAHB’s Senior Vice President for Regulatory and Housing Policy. Prior to NAHB, Dr. Crowe was Deputy Director of the Division of Housing and Demographic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
He has served on federal advisory committees to the Census Bureau and to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dr. Crowe holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Kentucky.
Paul Emrath, Ph.D., is Vice President for Survey and Housing Policy Research for NAHB where his responsibilities include conducting statistical and economic research for NAHB and its local affiliates, as well as coordinating the research activities of other NAHB economists. His specific areas of responsibility include multifamily housing, seniors housing, and estimating the economic impact of home building.
Since joining NAHB in 1992, he has developed many of the methods NAHB uses to analyze government programs and housing market data, and published articles on a wide variety of housing related topics-winning the National Investment Center's Outstanding Article Award in 1998. Before being promoted to Assistant Vice President, he worked for NAHB as Housing Policy Analyst (1992-1994), Director of Survey Analysis (1994-1995), Senior Economist (1995-1999), and Regulatory Economist (1999-2001). Prior to joining NAHB, he taught economic theory and statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for four years. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Stephen Melman is the Director of Economic Services at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Mr. Melman is a spokesman for NAHB’s forecast of new housing trends and the analysis of the home building industry. He has published numerous research articles on topics including industry structure and publicly traded builders. Before his current position, Mr. Melman was responsible for NAHB’s multifamily and federal housing program initiatives.
Prior to NAHB, Mr. Melman was an Appeals Officer for the US Civil Service Commission in Washington, DC. He is a former president of Sinai House, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for homeless families in Washington, DC.
Mr. Melman earned a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law, a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
Robert Denk is Assistant Vice President for Forecasting and Analysis at the National Association of Home Builders. His responsibilities include developing econometric models of national, state and metropolitan area housing activity, as well as providing ad hoc analyses on a range of housing sector issues. Mr. Denk has been an economist in Washington DC for over 20 years working in the private, non-profit and government sectors.
Mr. Denk received a B.S. from the College of Social Sciences at Michigan State University and an M.A. in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Robert D. Dietz, Ph.D., is Assistant Vice President for Tax and Policy Issues for NAHB, where his responsibilities include economic and legal analysis of tax and other policy issues. His areas of responsibility include homeownership and energy tax incentives, affordable housing policies, business tax issues, tax regulations, and government budget analysis. Dr. Dietz has published academic research on the private and social benefits of homeownership, federal tax expenditure estimation, and other housing and tax issues in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Research, the National Tax Journal and the NBER Working Paper series. 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.
Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D., is a Senior Economist with the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C. He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in economics with First Class Honors from McGill University as well as a Master of Public Administration degree and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Syracuse University. Dr. Eisenberg is a frequent public speaker on numerous housing and housing related topics including; the economic impact of homebuilding, the unintended consequences of government regulations on house prices, residential fire safety and how to reduce risk and boost profits using financial derivatives. He is the creator of the multifamily stock index and is the author of more than 45 homebuilding industry articles. Dr. Eisenberg is frequently seen on television and heard on radio and his research and opinions have been featured in Business Week, Fortune, many national and local newspapers, and in numerous other publications.
Rose Quint is Assistant Vice President for Survey Research at the National Association of Home Builders. Ms. Quint holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics/International Business from Old Dominion University as well as a Master’s degree in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her responsibilities include planning and conducting industry surveys, specifically in the areas of builder sentiment, remodeling, housing affordability, and AD&C financing issues. Ms. Quint is also responsible for special research projects, such as studies on builders’ profitability, consumer preferences, construction costs, and membership census. She joined NAHB in 1999.
Natalia Siniavskaia, Ph.D., is a Housing Policy Economist with the National Association of Home Builders where her responsibilities include conducting statistical and economic research on various homebuilding regulation and housing policy topics, including environmental and zoning regulation, housing affordability, and economic impact of home building. While working for NAHB, she developed a model for estimating housing’s contribution to Gross State Product.
Prior to joining NAHB in 2005, Dr. Siniavskaia was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University.
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Lay Bragg is the Manager of Communications & Customer Service for BuilderBooks.com and HousingEconomics.com at NAHB. Her responsibilities include editing, designing, and maintaining content on HousingEconomics.com, coordinating access for subscribers, and writing and repurposing economic content for the News and Alerts newsletter. She is also responsible for customer assistance, database management, administration of financial operations, and maintaining content on both BuilderBooks.com and HousingEconomics.com. Prior to joining NAHB, Ms. Bragg was the Publications Assistant and Customer Service Representative for the Associated General Contractors of America, where her responsibilities included editing and maintaining content on the AGC.org e-Store, order processing and customer assistance.
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