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Home Builders group says Michigan lacks builders; training program expands to recruit veterans and students
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The Home Builders Association’s Skill to Build Michigan Foundation told the House Education and Workforce Committee Michigan faces an aging builder workforce and a shortfall in single-family homebuilding; the foundation is certifying students, recruiting veterans and returning citizens, and distributing training materials and starter tool kits.
Lansing — The Home Builders Association of Michigan’s workforce arm told the House Education and Workforce Committee on Nov. 11 that an aging pool of licensed builders and insufficient recruitment threaten the state's ability to build new homes.
Dawn Crandall, executive vice president of government relations for the Home Builders Association and interim executive director of the Skill to Build Michigan Foundation, said state data show the average licensed builder is about 56 years old and that nearly half of licensees fall into an upper age range that will soon…
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