![]() ![]() ![]() Across the country seasonal immigrant workers are in short supply. There are other factors behind the shortage. “You have people that basically came out here last year in March, and they stayed,” said Patrick McLaughlin, an associate broker with Douglas Elliman, a real estate company.ĭata collected by the company showed that the inventory of available houses in the Hamptons - the collection of towns and hamlets along Long Island’s South Fork, from Southampton to East Hampton and all the way out to the peninsula of Montauk - fell at its fastest rate in over a decade in the first quarter of the year. Plus, a spate of recent laws designed to limit the number of shared houses - seen by some as nuisance party houses - has sharply limited places where summer workers say they can afford to stay. The Hamptons is experiencing the same constellation of factors that has contributed to a national employment crisis - but here it is supercharged by elements unique to the upscale towns: Untold numbers of New York City residents fled during the pandemic, gobbling up the housing stock and driving up prices as they turned the summer escape into a year-round residence. ![]()
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