Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

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So recruitment and training seem to be one of the challenges. If a trades apprentice needs some place to apprentice, but no company will invest the time in training them, they are stuck (insert variety of reasons this here). I can imagine too, that another challenge could be that if construction workers cannot afford to live in the communities that they are expected to work in, that they may find something else to do (or leave). Similarly, as the article pointed out, as the baby boom generation crests in the retirement age, there wasn't enough planning 20 years ago, to make sure that there were enough trades available to fill their boots when they retired (ditto a lot of other trades and professions from nurses to teachers to family doctors...)