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   Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:42:34 JST Kim Perales

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   We need immigrant labor to help build #affordablehousing. Training programs could start now (if we had an immigration bill that'd pass Congress).

   The end of Nov there were about 459,000 job openings in the IDU. The 5.4% job opening rate was the highest since 2000.

   Over 2/3 of construction firms say their job applicants lack skills they need. US: needs ~7M more homes to house everyone who needs shelter. Several states have taken steps to boost their const. workforces.

   https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020724_housing_workers/us-needs-homes-but-lacks-workers-build-them/

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     Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:42:36 JST Kim Perales

     #Homelessness is⬆️in the US. The govt should be increasing incentives to build affordable housing- unlikely: private sector will build the necessary housing w/o the govt's help:

     A record number of Americans can't afford their rent. Lawmakers are scrambling to help.

     Millions, esp. POC: facing same painful decisions as a record number struggle with unaffordable rent increases -fueled by rising prices from inflation, a shortage of affordable housing &: end of Covid relief.

     https://apnews.com/article/affordable-housing-rent-eviction-price-harvard-congress-f5411012e10fa78d0257c137e60c1be3

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.