26 Oct 2017

Fears construction industry can't keep up with KiwiBuild

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 26 October 2017

The new government is promising to build 10,000 houses a year but many in the construction sector doubt an already stretched labour supply will be able to keep up. The Labour-led government's $2 billion KiwiBuild scheme aims to produce 100,000 new houses for first home buyers in the next decade. But one of the country's biggest recruitment companies for construction workers says the new government's promise is unachievable.