KB Home - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

KB Home is Medium Risk.

KB Home is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

KB Home received a score of 15 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (1)(2). However, KB Home has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

KB Home does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. It’s charitable giving focus areas are “shelter, sustainability, community, construction skills, and employment” (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

KB Homes appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its 2025 Sustainability Report: “The Board considers diversity for directors and director candidates as encompassing expertise or
knowledge base, educational and career history, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, geographic residency, community or public service and/or other tangible and intangible aspects of an individual” (1). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

KB Home supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2023 Sustainability Report: “We strive to create a culture of excellence, where our employees can develop and advance in their careers, and where our respect for safety, inclusion,
diversity and equal opportunity help make us an employer of choice” (1). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2025 Sustainability Report: “Here, we share our GHG emissions and carbon footprint estimates, our TCFD and SASB disclosures and a GRI index of indicators. This approach demonstrates our belief that robust environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices are essential for a business that does well by doing good” (2). KB Home has a history of divisive corporate policies and practices. However, in 2025, the company removed DEI from its Sustainability Report. To date, the company has not publicly addressed this change, leaving shareholders without clarity regarding the company’s reasoning or future direction (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

KB Home has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

KB Home does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).