Rick Larkey is executive director of the North State Building Industry Foundation.
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Resurgent Housing Market Brings Labor Shortage into Focus for Homebuilders
Through the first four months of 2017, our industry has completed an impressive 1,888 new home sales. Underscoring the uptick in the homebuilding industry’s economic fortunes, in March we sold more than 500 — 527 to be exact — homes in a single month for the first time in a decade.