With a national housing crisis also being felt in Newfoundland and Labrador, governments are looking to the residential construction industry for help tackling it.

But industry players say the problems they face need to be fixed promptly to enable them to do that.

According to Alexis Foster of the provincial chapter of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association, a major obstacle contractors and trades have been facing is a lack of skilled workers.

“We’re finding a lot of people are having a very difficult time actually finding labour, skilled tradespeople to come in and help them as they build these homes,” Foster told CBC News.

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