Home construction and remodeling in Arkansas could be damaged by efforts to reach “net zero” migration into the United States.
A report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University finds immigrants are the main sources of labor for those projects. The center’s senior research analyst, Riordan Frost, said the most productive metro areas in building houses, condos and apartments often rely the most heavily on immigrant labor.
“This role is even more disproportionate in metropolitan areas with really high home-building activity or really high remodeling activity,” Frost said, “so essentially, really high demand for those trades’ workforces.”…