The CEO of construction tech startup Welcome Homes thinks builders will have to take risks to prevent a massive affordability crisis, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the early 1980s.
Source: Inman News
Welcome Homes CEO Alec Hartman on this moment’s parallels with 1981
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