Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing

Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) is a "public/private sector initiative."[http://www.huduser.org/research/path.html Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011111122249/http://www.huduser.org/research/path.html |date=2001-11-11 }} The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is responsible for its management. Its activities are coordinated by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).[http://www.pathnet.org/sp.asp?id=11321 PATH history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620000622/http://pathnet.org/sp.asp?id=11321 |date=2010-06-20 }} PATH's goals are to improve "the development, dissemination, and use of new housing technologies."

PATH developed during the Clinton Administration:

: the White House convened representatives from all segments of America's construction industry to consider a broad set of National Construction Goals. Over the next three years, the residential segment of the construction industry, represented by homebuilders, code officials, product manufacturers, and other interested parties, developed a research plan for implementing National Construction Goals for the housing sector. PATH is the outgrowth of those proposals [...] PATH was officially launched on May 4, 1998.

HUD lists the goals of PATH as seeking to:

:expand the development and utilization of new technologies in order to make American homes stronger, safer and more durable; more energy efficient and environmentally friendly; easier to maintain and less costly to operate; and more comfortable and exciting to live in.