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Internships Give Students Practical

Exposure To Home Building

The National Association of Home Builders profiles our high-school internship program. 

August 21, 2018

Lennar Homes Hands-On Construction

Experience

Good Day sacramento visits Lennar Homes and the Engineering Academy that is helping high schools students get construction experience!

July 13, 2018

With construction worker shortage, Elk Grove

Students step up

Sacramento, Placer counties give students summer opportunities


July 11, 2018

'I did it by myself': Despite the heat, interns

enjoy learning the construction trade.

A new program by the North State Building Industry Foundation gives young adults the opportunity to experience the construction industry first-hand, by helping build homes for four weeks in the summer.

July 2, 2018

Homebuilders wa​nt high school students for

 construction jobs

Sacramento homebuilders are trying to deal with a severe shortage of construction workers by training high school students in summer internships. They want the teens and their parents to consider the possibility that a construction career might be a good alternative to college, though that can require some convincing...

Troubles of the Trade

The plans were all set, the schedules in place. In 2013, Homes by Towne of Sacramento was forging ahead with its first project since the housing market collapsed. This was Cascade Crossing, a single-family community in Grass Valley with 80-plus homes, front porches and gourmet kitchens. But something was missing: workers...

July 18, 2017

Resurgent Housing Market Brings Labor

Shortage into Focus for Homebuilders

During the first four months of 2007, the Sacramento regional homebuilding industry sold 2,326 new homes. Five years later, and well into the Great Recession, that number had fallen dramatically to 842. But that was then and this is now...

May 26, 2017

Homebuilders push for 5,000 new workers in

next five years

Rick Larkey, North State BIA’s workforce development director, said hitting the 5,000-worker mark involves three strategies. One is to work aggressively with secondary and postsecondary education programs for training and recruiting...

February 24, 2017

Afghan refugees given a leg up in finding

Sacramento area jobs

The Sacramento region’s building industry is experiencing a severe labor shortage.Meanwhile, Ahmad Mherjo and other Afghan refugees are struggling to find work here, after risking their lives to help U.S. forces in their homeland...