Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:33:03 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <tf75vjh5ecef7kuurvdk96dfb1469lh3ld@4ax.com>
References: <vsjh67$1cb$1@reader1.panix.com> <vskgq5$324op$1@dont-email.me> <vsm4a2$rd3$1@panix2.panix.com> <vsmrn8$1j9s7$1@dont-email.me> <vsmujr$flb$1@panix2.panix.com> <ccuvujpit0o8a9l38bv2h8vf03q52egf3b@4ax.com> <vsroma$2pilp$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:33:06 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b658e3f182032b451edb2eb2edfec1ae";
	logging-data="1413606"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ij5LoXRpQ8uOv9y+c84CMiSP7VfNt1nw="
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
Cancel-Lock: sha1:IyizDwBoQ9VtmpMcRV2nVK6JLkE=
Bytes: 2077

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

<snippo>

>One of the reasons the US is having an affordable housing shortage is a=20
>shortage of construction workers to build the housing.  I suspect there=20
>isn't a complete overlap in the workforce building factories vs. housing=
=20
>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.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"