Construction worker shortage could delay local Harvey recovery
242 views · Published 27 September 2017 · 2:22 · Indexed 21 October 2026
Channel: KRIS 6 News · 2017 · News & Politics
A severe shortage of construction workers is expected to cause widespread delays and push labor costs sharply higher as Texas begins to rebuild from Hurricane Harvey. The spike in construction demand comes at a time when contractors say they already are facing delays of one to two months to find workers for their projects. Now those wait times could grow to several months for those in need of repairs. Texans were already hard-pressed to find good construction workers as the industry struggled to hire skilled laborers, a problem that's only going to get worse thanks to Harvey. "It is going to cause delays in home building, it is going to cause a delay in repairs, and it is also going to cause getting these workers who are not skilled workers who don't know what they are doing, doing jobs they shouldn't be doing," owner of Long Build Construction Tracy Long.
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