Homebuilders are desperate to build more homes as demand accelerates across the country though they can’t because they simply do not have enough workers. The dearth in labor has squeezed homebuilders who have seen costs rise. It is the rise in labor costs in particular that has some construction firms […]
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Housing starts down again in January
U.S. homebuilders started construction on fewer projects in January than in December, continuing a six-year, saw-tooth pattern of ups and downs in housing starts. January housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 1.065 million units, 2 percent below the downwardly revised December estimate of 1.087 million. Economists […]