Relocating and re-habilitating homes often requires more labour than new construction.  Studies have suggested that for every $1.5M invested in rehabilitating an existing building creates approx 10 more jobs than new construction.  The reason for this is existing homes rehabiltations are labour intensive - more labour and less materials.  Whats more the workers required for this this type of work are genreally highly skilled tradesman that understand and have knowledge of older buildings.  In this regard rehabilitating older buildings can ensure the retention and development of highly valued tade skills.