Residential construction remains in operation to keep the housing market stable at the risk of spreading COVID-19 virus.
Construction workers worry for their loved ones as they continue to build under an order to combat a national housing shortage. However in San Marcos, realtors say housing inventory can handle a few months of delays even though affordable housing inventory is still miles behind demand.
A 2020 University of Texas at Austin Study “COVID-19 in Austin, Texas: Epidemiological Assessment of Construction Work” projected that the risk of severe COVID-19 within the construction workforce will be higher than that in the non-construction working 18-49 year old populations.
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