A shortage of housing for Georgia’s growing workforce is becoming a greater issue for the state’s economic prospects as it works to attract more manufacturers and big businesses who want to know where their employees will live.
The issue “wasn’t high on the list years ago, but now they’re asking more about their workers” including where employees might live affordably based on the wages they would earn and how far their daily commute to the job would be, said Clint Mueller, director of governmental affairs for the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, said Wednesday at the Georgia Association of Land Bank Authorities summit in Macon.
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