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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 18:17:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
>>> 
>>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.

This is true, and since so many of the construction workere are Hispanic
immigrants, it's not going to be getting better any time soon.  Back in
the fifties in Pittsburgh they were all Italian immigrants.  Now the folks
who did my roof were all Salvadorians.

>The other (and likely more impactful) reason is that it is far more
>profitable for the home builders and contractors to build high-end
>housing than affordable housing.

THIS is the real problem at least around here.  Why should I build 
affordable housing when for not much more I can build a huge mansion
out of cardboard and staples and sell it for considerably more profit?
--scott
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