A housing crisis in the UK is exacerbated by a shortage of bricklayers. Britain needs to more homes to young people to on the housing ladder and to the scourge of homelessness. Soaring rents and a lack of affordable housing have greatly rough sleeping. Successive governments over decades have to meet their housebuilding targets. The latest government's efforts are hindered by a shortfall of qualified bricklayers and other skilled tradespeople. The UK an extra 25,000 bricklayers, 3,000 plumbers, 4,000 plasterers, 10,000 carpenters, and 3,000 new electricians to its pledge to build 1.5 million new homes.
The UK government has the deficit in construction worker numbers on "years of underinvestment in skills". A housing ministry official said her department was its utmost to 300,000 new homes a year. Another spokesperson added: "We will every lever to on our commitment, which building a diverse workforce." However, Colin Brown, a housebuilding consultant, the government's home construction pledge "unrealistic". He said sufficient numbers of workers could "a generation". He added that the current target of adding 5,000 new apprenticeships each year "fanciful" and a "drop in the ocean".
