About Us
 The Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland is a nonprofit organization founded in 1943 dedicated to the promotion, advancement and professionalism of the building industry and associated industries. It is our responsibility to uphold good construction standards, quality workmanship and to keep abreast of all codes and regulations that affect our industry.

The HBA of Greater Cleveland and it's leaders were instrumental in the formation of both the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) in 1942 and the Ohio Home Builders Association (OHBA) in 1944 and that leadership on the state and national levels still continues today. Presently known as the Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland, our organization serves the building industry in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Ashtabula counties. In the years since its founding, the HBA's builders have developed a national reputation for product quality, technological innovation and affordability. Gifted with a talented labor pool, Cleveland's builders have constructed some of the most well-built residences in the United States. Quality has been the rule and value is the result.

The NAHB has created the National Housing Hall of Fame. Inductees include such well known and nationally renowned names as R. Buckminster Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright, architects; J. Robert Philip Weyerhauser, Jr., the industrialist and environmentalist; Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Taft to name a few. There are only two individuals from the State of Ohio who have been so honored and both inductees are members of our Association: George Goudreau, Sr. (the founding president of our association) and Robert F. (Bob) Schmitt (president of Bob Schmitt Homes).

The purpose of the Association is:

  • To promote and protect the principle of housing for all people;
     
  • To represent and unite all segments of the building industry and associated industries;
     
  • To establish and maintain prescribed standards for the industry as reflected in the Registered Builder Warranty Program;
     
  • To serve a diverse group of members and nonmembers through information dissemination, educational training programs and social activities;
     
  • To be the credible resource for the building industry and associated industries;
     
  • To be the industry voice to the public, public agencies, and government officials.

Some guiding principles:

  • Members are the focus.
  • Top quality performance is the basis for everything we do.
  • Teamwork is the key to our success.
  • We are partners with the Association Members in fulfilling their goals.
  • Our primary goal is to meet or exceed the objectives established by the Members leaders.
    Requirements

The membership shall be available to any person, firm or corporation which:

  • Is an individual or company whose owner or at least one principal thereof, derives its principal income from the development of land; the building of housing units; building of commercial structures; rebuilding of, or addition to dwelling units or commercial structures.
  • Agrees to adhere to the Registered Builder Agreement as written on the Registered Builder application form.
  • Fulfills such other requirements as may be established from time to time by the Board of Trustees.
  • Agrees to abide by the HBA Code of Ethics.

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