Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 10:19:07 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

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One of the reasons the US is having an affordable housing shortage is a
shortage of construction workers to build the housing.  I suspect there
isn't a complete overlap in the workforce building factories vs. housing
but I'm pretty sure there is at least some.

When the pandemic came far enough under control to allow construction
to resume, there was a massive shortage of the skilled trades
(plumbers, electricians, etc). This affected not only commercial
construction projects but also home-related work by pumping up the
cost and introducing delays.

But only for a while, of course.

At least, that was my experience in Seattle.
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