Pro@programming.dev to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 14 days agoMigrants are building Canada’s homes—while getting blamed for housing policy failuresbreachmedia.caexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down13cross-posted to: canada@lemmy.ca
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minus-squarefourish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoHouses being built my me and all of the excavation and framing are being done by visible minorities. Can’t tell if they qualify as migrants or not though but the only Europeans I see working on housing are doing electrical plumbing and HVAC.
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·12 days agoThat’s because wages are depressed. If you paid fair wages, white people would work those jobs
minus-squarefourish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoI don’t pay anyone. Contractors do. At higher wages nobody would be working. See what’s happening in the US.
Houses being built my me and all of the excavation and framing are being done by visible minorities. Can’t tell if they qualify as migrants or not though but the only Europeans I see working on housing are doing electrical plumbing and HVAC.
That’s because wages are depressed. If you paid fair wages, white people would work those jobs
I don’t pay anyone. Contractors do. At higher wages nobody would be working. See what’s happening in the US.