The crackdown on immigration by the Trump Administration continues to cause disruptions on construction sites and the impact is particularly acute in the residential space.

A report in the Boston Globe covered the impact on the Massachusetts construction industry, illustrating how sitings of immigration enforcement personnel causes worksites to shut down.

About one in four construction workers in the state is an immigrant (including those with legal documentation and those without), about the same as the construction workforce nationwide. The concentration of undocumented construction workers is believed to be higher in the residential space than in other sectors of the construction industry.

Even workers with legal documentation are wary of getting caught up in immigration enforcement actions and stay away from jobsites if ICE is reported in the area, the Globe report noted. This exacerbates the state’s construction labor shortage and its plans to add 220,000 homes by 2035 to address the housing crisis.

One analysis of the Bay State’s labor needs concluded that it is not on track to meet its workforce goals and will need to add about 64,000 new immigrants annually through 2030 to stabilize the working-age population.

The state is on track to add only about 29,000 workers by the end of 2026. Many of the jobs the state needs to fill are in the construction industry.