Austin builders are starting a lot of new homes. Finishing them is not so simple. | AKMcGlinchy
Alexandra Spurlock bought a new three-bedroom home in Hutto, about a half-hour drive north of downtown Austin. When she signed the papers last summer, the home was nothing more than a plot of dirt. The builder said the house would be move-in ready by February.
“She keeps saying to me, ‘I want to go home. I want to go back to Texas,’” Spurlock said. “And the answer is, we don’t have a home in Texas."delays because of supply chain issues “It's pretty common for a project to be delayed up to three months,” said Robin Davis, the manager of, which provided the data. “But the eight-month timeline is way far from normal.”
“They had one of the rooms in their office that was filled with microwaves that they had to go to a local home improvement store to buy,” Glasshagel, senior vice president of Zonda, told KUT. Their work as electricians is so in demand, though, that despite Benites being eight-months pregnant, she has joined her husband on construction sites.Karina LujanElectrical work is so in demand that Vicky Benites of We Love Electric has been helping out on construction sites, despite being eight-months pregnant.
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