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Rhonda Kaysen predicts that builders will be ready to construct homes but lack sufficient workers due to deportation policies.

On The Daily (NYT) · unverified speaker · The Daily (NYT) · Jul 22, 2026

And so you could end up with a situation where there's all sorts of builders ready to go, and they don't have the workers to do the work.

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