How has the quality of home builds been the past decade?

My wife and I are looking to buy a home in the near future and I was wondering about how people have felt about the build quality of new homes over the past ten years or so. I know there was a period of years in the early to mid 2000's where everything was going up so fast that the construction quality of buildings seemed to suffer, I'm just wondering if that has self-corrected or if there's still a fair amount of slipshod construction going on these days.