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Confidence among home builders has held firm over the last few months, showing slow, but continued progression in the single-family sector. However, builders are still faced with concerns about labor and lot shortages.

There are two factors keeping millennials out of the housing market: rising home prices and a lack of affordable, newly constructed homes for sale.

Home builders have hit a roadblock. The ramped up regulatory environment has made it difficult for home builders to build affordable homes.

Home builders' focus in recent years has continually been on expensive properties, which could be placing a damper on the homebuying process for first-time shoppers.

Home builders are performing well in their sector as profits trended upward for fiscal year 2014.

Confidence among home builders has been on a series of ups and downs over the last few months, showing slow, but continued progression in the single-family sector, but they are still faced with concerns about labor and lot shortages.

The industry is anticipating a complete turnaround from the previous numbers and for home builders to come out of the new year slump.

Zillow says there is a direct link to immigration and construction labor costs. See how this correlation will affect home builders.

Home builder confidence in January 2016 changed very little from December's level, but this only means that economists were spot on with their predictions for the new year.

Despite a decline in home starts in June, homebuilder confidence in the single-family, 55+ market is on the rise. In fact, the second quarter marked the 11th consecutive year-over-year increase in confidence in this sector, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).