[SampleMan]

Misleading headline. I suppose buggy builders have to deal with a shortage of available trained workers as well.

[DuncanWaring]

What happened to all the houses built five years ago during the bubble, when people were buying every house they could get their hands on, because house prices never decreased and they were guaranteed to make money flipping them a few days later?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

It's so amusing how the members of Goebbels’s team in the MSM are doing their assigned tasks and writing bs ‘feel good about the economy’ stories right on cue for the democratic convention in this pathetic attempt to put lipstick on a pig. Most people would have a hard time finding a relative who would lie and cover for them as much as the media does for the democrats.

[dfwgator]

Home Builders Don’t Have Enough Workers, Who will Work for Peanuts, to Meet New Demand.

There, fixed it.

[SueRae]

Fantasmagorical recovery!!! Brought to you solely by election season smike and mirrors!!!

[Abathar]

I find it fascinating because with the cost of building materials rising so fast vs. existing homes sitting stagnant and at really good prices the only few homes being built are large trophy types around here.

In fact I haven’t seen but a couple of homes around me being built in years now.

[builder]

I AM a builder in Northern California. If there was anything for me to build - trust me i could find people willing to work.

Just more media BS. The problem is not lack of workers. it is lack of WORK. At least in this miserable State.

[cripplecreek]

2 of my neighbors are renting out houses they intended to sell a few years ago.

[liberalh8ter]

Bovine excrement. Since our legislators are so keen on legislating, why don't they make it a criminal offense to author garbage, such as this.

[Iron Munro]

Psst! Hey buddy, over here.....

[Iron Munro]

Home Builders Don't Have Enough Workers to Meet New Demand

Just laying the ground for more pro-illegal-alien presidential executive orders.

Move along please.

[Kenton]

Home Builders Don't Have Enough Workers to Meet New Demand

Since demand is the single greatest factor in legitimate job creation, this is encouraging.

[G Larry]

They forgot to mention that it is the LEGAL immigrants that went back to Mexico, due to lack of work.

Most ILLEGALS stayed!

[meyer]

It’s hard to compete with the welfare system - seems that not working pays quite well these days. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

[headstamp 2]

“Home Builders Don’t Have Enough Workers to Meet New Demand”

They mean illegal “coolies” from south of the border willing to work for 8-10 dollars an hour in the building trades.

You know, all those trades “anybody” can do.

[Wuli]

Translation: Homebuilders Anxious Again to Exploit Illegal Immigration (so that McMansions are “affordable housing” again).

[zeestephen]

Obama just legalized 1.5 million DREAM Act immigrants.

And still we can't find enough minimum wage labor!

Oh, the humanity!

By the way...

Remember the first day of registration for the DREAM Act?

Huge mobs waiting in parks, thousands of people lined up, Hard Left political placards, joyous gloating...

Then...

Haven't seen ONE photo or read ONE story about the DREAM Act since that first shocking day.

We're only one election away from blanket Amnesty.

Then Texas turns Blue.

Then American Conservatism dies a slow, painful political death.

[bronxville]

These lying reporters already have their job and to keep it they must continue to lie. Shame on them.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

In the past, builders would hire workers and train them on the job.

"They don’t have the luxury of that now," says John Courson, CEO of the Home Builders Institute, an industry training group. "They want workers that are available to them, that come out trained with a skill, and ready to hit the ground working. They don’t want the expense of on the job training.”

Suck it up and train, greedy whiners. (Maybe the guy you train will be a customer some day.)

[hattend]

With all the foreclosed houses on the market I’m surprised new houses are being built at all.

I would think that the home building industry would be one of the last tradecrafts to emerge out of the Obama depression.