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Construction Safety vs Homelessness | Real Estate News
A buckled column at a former Pfizer building has sparked a union push claiming nonunion construction is deadlier—citing that 81% of construction deaths last year were nonunion. But context matters: 80% of city construction is open-shop, mixing union and nonunion workers. Risk varies by project type—unions dominate big infrastructure, nonunion crews handle housing builds. Ignoring this skews the stats. Worse, lawmakers might impose union-backed wage mandates on adaptive reuse programs, raising costs and halting conversions—threatening tens of thousands of new homes. And homelessness, driven by…
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