Tell Congress: Housing = JOBS     Write Congress at www.capitolconnect.com/builderlink or call 1-866-924-6242 (NAHB)   Time is running out on the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit!  Call or write your senators and representative today and tell them to extend and expand the homebuyer tax credit.  It's the best way to create jobs and central to solving the economic crisis.     An effective measure to stimulate the housing market is the extension and expansion of the homebuyer tax credit.  This would bring consumers back to the market, reduce inventories of unsold homes, and stabilize home values.  And, most importantly, it will create hundreds of thousands of desperately-needed jobs.  NAHB supports action to:   ·         Extend the credit for home purchases through November 30, 2010; ·         Expand the credit to all buyers of a principal residence; ·         Maintain the current $8,000 maximum credit amount.   In the first year, NAHB estimates that an extended and expanded homebuyer tax credit will:   ·         Create more than 350,000 jobs; ·         Increases home purchases by 383,000; ·         Increases housing starts by 82,000; ·         Generate $16.1 billion in wages and salaries and $12.1 billion in business income; and ·         Yield tax revenues of $8.4 billion for the federal government and $3.2 billion for state and local governments.   Click here to read a one-page analysis of the NAHB tax credit proposal.    Click here to see our national message running in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal and USA Today.       CALL TO ACTION Ø  Write Congress today by visiting www.capitolconnect.com/builderlink.  Ø  You may also call your members of Congress toll-free at 1-866-924-6242 (NAHB). Ø  Let us know what you are hearing from your senators and representative by filling out the Congressional feedback form, by emailing us at builderlink@nahb.com or by calling us at (800) 368-5242 x8475.     We must make our voice heard loud and clear: Housing = JOBS.