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Why did we turn over new home construction to immigrant labor?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:07 pm
I have worked and traveled pretty extensively in Latin America. I haven’t seen much that said ‘These people are great craftsmen’.
So why are they building almost all our new houses?
So why are they building almost all our new houses?
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 9:07 pm
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Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:08 pm to weagle1999
They are cheap.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:11 pm to weagle1999
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So why are they building almost all our new houses?
If you could get the youth off the computers and not scared to sweat, we have plenty of entry level apprentices and workers.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:12 pm to weagle1999
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Why did we turn over new home construction to immigrant labor?
Take a guess...
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:13 pm to weagle1999
Because we love slave labor.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:13 pm to ItTakesAThief
In my experience visiting construction sites, one demographic is nowhere to be found and the other just wants to sit in the truck and watch work happening.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:14 pm to weagle1999
I’ve heard construction costs on new homes in our area would run 60% higher if companies had to pay the market rate for labor (and there is a massive shortage of labor to boot). The industry just doesn’t pay enough to attract younger American workers - just like agriculture and tourism
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:14 pm to weagle1999
Cheap labor.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:14 pm to weagle1999
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They are cheap.
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Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:14 pm to weagle1999
I mean, when you are paying $20/hour you are not going to get the best and brightest
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:15 pm to ItTakesAThief
And reliable and work hard at half the cost
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:15 pm to ItTakesAThief
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They are cheap.
This.
And the people who illegally hire them have never been, and will likely never be, held accountable.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:16 pm to IMSA_Fan
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I’ve heard construction costs on new homes in our area would run 60% higher if companies had to pay the market rate for labor
I got blasted for questioning the ‘house as the American dream model’ so I won’t go down that road again. But I do wonder if most of what we think about houses is a product of the marketing arm of the home construction sector of our economy.
We are supposedly not a rapidly growing country due to birthrates, so why should we think that the rate of new home construction should continue accelerating?
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 9:20 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:17 pm to IMSA_Fan
Loss of large US labor supply due to opioid & drug epidemic.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:18 pm to LegendInMyMind
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And the people who illegally hire them have never been, and will likely never be, held accountable.
So much this
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:18 pm to IMSA_Fan
I have nothing to back this up but I feel like we would have enough housing if we didn’t have things like 55 million H1Bs, millions if foreign university students, an 40-80 million illegals.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:20 pm to ArHog
They’re cheap, disposable and the American public is largely dumb as frick as to what constitutes quality in residential construction
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:21 pm to weagle1999
Mexicans are some of the best carpenters, brick workers and framers I ever saw.
We need more, not less
We need more, not less
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:24 pm to weagle1999
Largely because of the mass migration to major metro areas - e.g., it is not the total number of houses, it is where they are located
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