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Houston Is So Short Of Construction Help, Developers Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
Zubu Brothers ^ | 3-25-2022 | Lane Gillespie of Bisnow.com

Posted on 03/25/2022 10:29:46 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 03/25/2022 10:29:46 AM PDT by blam
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To gain better-trained workers, Kashani has an idea in mind: He’s building a trade school to create them.


Thoughts?


2 posted on 03/25/2022 10:32:52 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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“To gain better-trained workers, Kashani has an idea in mind: He’s building a trade school to create them”.

Good for him. We need many more trade schools.


3 posted on 03/25/2022 10:40:45 AM PDT by laplata (")
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I certainly support trade schools.

But, on the other hand, if you pay a better wage, skilled tradesmen from other states will move to Houston.


4 posted on 03/25/2022 10:43:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Ukraine is not a good country and does not deserve active US support.)
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"Good for him. We need many more trade schools."

I agree. When I was younger there were many more trade schools.

5 posted on 03/25/2022 10:46:42 AM PDT by blam
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I don’t understand what the problem is. There are thousands of highly skilled, qualified trades people pouring across the Southern Border, even as we speak.


6 posted on 03/25/2022 10:47:06 AM PDT by moovova
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Freepers hate this reality
If Latinos leave

Amongst other industries construction at least here in Nashville would stop essentially

Across the board except management

They are 90% of the industry here aside from electricians and plumbers

Even iron workers are now heavy with Latinos

It’s simply staggering and Nashville is crazy building now

Skyscrapers condos and housing ..I think 100 houses and condos come online daily and still a shortfall


7 posted on 03/25/2022 10:48:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (Free Republic has gone inswlllwlsllllllane but it's fun)
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3,000,000 illegal aliens have made it into the US since Jan 20, 2021.

And every job site and restaurant I frequent has a help waned sign.

So where are the workers?


8 posted on 03/25/2022 10:48:25 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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"But, on the other hand, if you pay a better wage, skilled tradesmen from other states will move to Houston."

I lived in Houston from 1975 to 1995. In the early 80's the freeways were crowded with cars with Michigan state license plates. Often, I would see a bumper sticker that said "will the last person to leave Michigan turn out the lights."

9 posted on 03/25/2022 10:51:42 AM PDT by blam
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“a help waned sign”

Funny typo. The help did wane, thus the problem.


10 posted on 03/25/2022 10:52:24 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Pay more. Workers will come.


11 posted on 03/25/2022 10:53:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Bull. Wages would go up. A good thing.


12 posted on 03/25/2022 10:53:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Up north if it’s non-union construction, it’s braceros on the job.
The big projects like downtown buildings are unionized and mostly white guys with some affirmative action blacks and chicks.


13 posted on 03/25/2022 10:54:02 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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At Walmart spending their stimulus checks.


14 posted on 03/25/2022 11:01:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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“to develop the W Hotel, a 300-odd-room luxury hotel”

300 odd rooms. How many normal rooms will there be?


15 posted on 03/25/2022 11:03:25 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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Illegals working for cash while collecting welfare. The elites new plan.


16 posted on 03/25/2022 11:04:12 AM PDT by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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That’s because the construction industry has been using illegals for decades now and displacing Americans so much that many don’t enter that field anymore.

They work for less pay and benefits than Americans expect to get paid.


17 posted on 03/25/2022 11:20:50 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: blam

I heard the Michigan Governor in 2016 say the state is begging for construction workers. Biggest problem. Lack of people who can do the trade school math and pass a drug test.


18 posted on 03/25/2022 11:34:05 AM PDT by joesbucks
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Print trillions of dollars to pay people more to not work than they make by working. What could go wrong?


19 posted on 03/25/2022 11:36:51 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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They work less than union wage but not much less than Americans who’ve grown fat as hell lazy

Middle Tennessee lower middle class whites who once worked as carpenters and masons etc now either do something else

Ot they get disability and sell their pills scripts and other freebies

Blacks just do nothing ....sell dope and grift dole....I know a few black landscape crews and one stonemason group that’s blacks

Mexicans are further up the food chain here

If your bean people and speak English then you’re the straw boss and well paid

The grunts are Salvadorans and Hondurans and Guats

And they won’t hit a lock for less than 18-20/hour

My oldest son is supe for a small cement floor finishing outfit...1.1m in sales last year ....technically he’s number two in the outfit

He’s paid 20/hour and a share of each job he completes from the owner

They use crack labor .....paid 16/ hour

I imagine cheapest bean labor is fast foods

In the beginning they did as u say

But as this matured ....whites just mostly quit or shifted

Blacks had already quit

I build too but now sub out all but maybe concrete and warehouses and car washes only

My family has been in this in one manner or another since 1880 in Mississippi and here in Tennessee

Blacks did the lower end in my youth and worked very well btw

I notice up north not as many Mexicans so whites still work construction

And around here under trump many fed funded jobs required proof and paid more too

Govt money projects have labor pay requirements written in to equalize with union wages

It’s quite high.....but it’s about union demands more than illegals

Beanies go home and man .....it’s a cataclysm here


20 posted on 03/25/2022 3:51:21 PM PDT by wardaddy (Free Republic has gone inswlllwlsllllllane but it's fun)
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