National Association of Home Builders

NAHB chief economist: Tariff tweets could be signaling pricier U.S. homes 

President Donald Trump’s tweets escalating the U.S.-China trade war weren’t just a threat to the stock markets and the agricultural sector. Housing could be affected as well. “Additional tariffs on a country like China, where we get many of our construction products, are an additional tax on homes,” Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, said in an interview.