{"id":71261,"date":"2025-01-29T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71261"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:37:30","slug":"migrant-labour-needed-to-solve-uk-housing-crisis-construction-industry-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/29\/migrant-labour-needed-to-solve-uk-housing-crisis-construction-industry-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant labour needed to solve UK housing crisis, construction industry warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1vUHx0.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6&amp;x=400&amp;y=97&amp;s=189&amp;d=57\" alt=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner have promised to build 1.5 million new homes over this parliament (PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The construction industry wants a special visa to be created to import enough workers it says are critical to solving the housing crisis as the government grapples with\u00a0<a title=\"UK population to soar to 72.5 million by 2032 due to net migration rise, ONS says\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/uk-population-rise-ons-net-migration-2032-b2687543.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">quelling migration.<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/migrant-labour-needed-to-solve-uk-housing-crisis-construction-industry-warns\/ar-AA1y0sEX?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=70352f3ab4184a24b7c78c049485dd6a&amp;ei=47\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The construction industry wants a special visa to be created to import enough workers it says are critical to solving the housing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-migration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/construction.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71262,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71261\/revisions\/71262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}