1968

The NAHB Manpower Development & Training Department launches its Craft Skills training program with funding from the U.S. Department of Labor. Local home builders associations operate the pre-apprenticeship training program to help youth and unskilled, underskilled, unemployed and underemployed individuals enter the home building industry with training in carpentry, electrical wiring, plumbing, painting, landscaping, heating and air conditioning, building and apartment maintenance, rehabilitation, remodeling and the masonry and trowel trades.