UK trains delinquents as homebuilders face worker shortage

London

AS a teenager, Yasar Ugur spent his time hanging around East London streets getting into gang fights. Now, he's up before dawn to work on a construction site after a Berkeley Group Holdings plc project gave him a fresh start.

"This has got a future," said Mr Ugur, who is now 21 and a trainee site manager for London's biggest homebuilder. "I'm still young and this is the way I'm going to progress in life."

Mr Ugur is one of 13 young people hired by the company through…