Construction industry voices offer perspectives on labor shortage

Builders and an educator weigh in on the problem and how they're dealing with it.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 20, 2020
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File. Willy Nunn, president of Homes By WestBay, a Riverview-based builder.
File. Willy Nunn, president of Homes By WestBay, a Riverview-based builder.
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Willy Nunn, president of Homes By WestBay

For Willy Nunn, the root cause of the construction labor shortage that has plagued Florida developers and builders is easy to pinpoint. 

 

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