More than 50,000 construction workers are urgently needed to fill a 'black hole' in the workforce if the Government is to meet targets aimed at tackling the housing crisis.
That is down from over 3,600 a year ago and is another all-time low for a research series that runs back to 2006. James Benson is director of housing, planning and development services at the Construction Industry Federation ."The target currently for Housing for All is 33,000 homes annually for the decade, and that's quite a task."If we look over the last number of years we've under-supplied, when we take into account population growth and demand.
Governance has allowed this. No planning to automate menial work. Inadequate career realignments. Failure to correctly guide children with natural technical acumen. Allowing cheap labour from external sources. Stoking unionisation by interfering in market forces.