• A consultant who works with home builders warns that they should not even think of just going back to the company structures they had before the bust.
• Charles P. Schneider warns that margins on houses are smaller now, so builders cannot afford to have as many people as they once did to produce the same volume. They need to figure out how to handle that.
• Another point Schneider makes is that many workers have foresaken building because they needed to move on and find jobs. The labor pool will not be the same when home builders want to ramp back up to meet growing demand.

From the article:

Now is a very important time in home building. Volume is starting to pick up. Pricing is starting to move up. And builders now have to figure out how to rebuild their businesses. ...