B.C.’s housing crisis is now a jobs crisis

B.C.’s housing crisis is now a jobs crisis

Labour Day is when we all pause to recognize the men and women who build our homes, schools, hospitals, roads, and infrastructure. At the start of this year, 250,000 British Columbians worked in construction. That number is now falling, as a sharp slowdown in homebuilding triggers layoffs of highly skilled tradespeople on a scale we haven’t seen in more than a decade. July alone saw 7,600 construction jobs lost in B.C., and more losses are comin…