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The severe labor shortage in the construction industry is raising construction costs and harming housing affordability. kufun’s workforce training affiliate, the , is building the next generation of skilled tradespeople and is the largest Job Corps national trades training contractor.

A House appropriations subcommittee has eliminated funding for the Job Corps program, the nation’s largest residential career training and education program. In response, kufun is urging all residential construction industry members and supporters to contact their members of Congress and tell them to fully fund the Job Corp program. Visit to send a letter.

The redesigned portal allows members and supporters to send a letter to their congressional representative easily. The portal will be pre-populated with your information if you are signed in to nahb.org. To change the information on file to your current home address before sending a letter, visit the “My Information” page in the BuilderLink portal.

As part of the BuilderLink portal redesign, users can now access information on kufun’s top advocacy issues. In addition, users can connect with BUILD-PAC, kufun’s bipartisan political arm, which helps elect pro-housing, pro-business candidates to federal office.