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Housing Short-Handed Without Immigrant Workers
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Contributor | Karma Policeman |
Last Edited | Karma Policeman May 30, 2007 02:12pm |
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News Date | Monday, July 31, 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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July 31, 2006 - When I started my home building business in 1992, I found it was easier to sell houses than it was to build them. I discovered early on that there was a significant shortage of labor in the home building industry, especially in the more arduous sweat trades. Moreover, coming from a career in finance, I was perplexed not only at the shortage but at the quality of labor in the industry. The expanding housing market of the mid-1990s only made this shortage more acute.
To fill this labor void, in true supply-and-demand fashion many Hispanic workers began to cross the border. This was especially true in the construction industries, where most work is accomplished through the use of trade subcontractors. This scenario provided a fertile opportunity for legal immigrant trade contractors to offer their services to builders and other general contractors while employing workers from their families and villages back in Mexico, most of whom had come here illegally. |
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