• Word from Florida and Texas is that as the housing market begins to recover, there have been bidding wars over the services of framers, dry wall contractors and other trades in which non-citizen provide a lot of the labor.
• Neither political party wants to touch the issue for fear of upsetting its constituencies, but Scott Sedam says the home-building industry could face real problems if non-citizens are banned from working.
• The fact is that contractors do not find many citizen workers looking for the jobs that need to be filled, and raising wages enough to begin to attract them is not something many in the industry want to contemplate.

From the article:

I travel this country meeting with builders virtually every week and between my monthly Professional Builder article, my weekly blog on HouzingZone.com and our Lean Building Group on Linkedin.com, I hear from many more. As housing is picking up in most parts of the nation, I am beginning to hear a lot about labor shortages. ...