Bring more women and immigrants on board to fill shortages, Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies' managing director says.
The slow pace of home building in the U.S. could be alleviated by bringing on more women and immigrants to fill the construction industry’s labor shortage, a Harvard University researcher said during a congressional hearing this week.
One way to address the shortage of construction workers is to promote training, Herbert said. But the goal is ultimately to “expand the pool of people” who enter the construction field. Immigration is another key way to bring more workers on board to build more homes, Herbert said. “Going back 20 years, we built two million homes a year in the early 2000s,” Herbert said “And a lot of that was through immigration.”
In addition to a shortage of building materials from doors to transformers, the labor shortage has been a key contributor to the slowness of building new homes in the U.S. Demand has skyrocketed, with more millennials entering prime household formation years, a study by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found recently.
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