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Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 2017 for its stirring depiction of families seeking to find and maintain a place to live. Readers of the book learned that America faces an affordable housing crisis.

Stuck at home, consumers are shifting their spending behavior. Some disposable income that would be spent on dining out or going on vacation is now going toward home improvement.

Despite challenges advances in technology and product development – including more powerful cordless tools and products that are easier to operate – will continue to drive market growth.

As homeowner remodeling projects commonly focus on raising home values, countertop demand will benefit from trends favoring more bathrooms, larger kitchens, and higher value countertop materials to boost ROI.

Home decking demand is on the rise in many parts of the US. Here are a few key demand drivers we expect to see in 2020 and beyond.

A number of trends will drive sales of off-road equipment at the global level – particularly gains in construction, farming, and manufacturing, applications.

Americans see the kitchen as the center of a home. Here are three trends driving cabinet growth.

Many homes and businesses have roofs that are near or beyond their expected product lifespans.

From asbestos bans changing the material composition of fiber cement products, to product innovation leading to more intensive use of alternatives at fiber cement’s expense, a number of developments in India, the United States and China will affect the ebb and flow of fiber cement sales through 2023 and beyond.