The Bay Area job market faces disruption from a lack of skilled labor and skyrocketing home prices that could throttle the region’s booming economy, according to Beacon Economics forecasts released Tuesday.

Job growth has slowed in the Bay Area’s three biggest urban centers. In Santa Clara County, the East Bay and San Francisco alike, employers simply aren’t hiring as briskly as they did in recent years, the Beacon economists said Tuesday in an assessment of regional economies in California.

“We could grow at a faster pace, but growth is being constrained by a lack of affordable housing and a lack of skilled labor,” said Robert Kleinhenz, an economist and executive director of research with Beacon. “These factors are having a disruptive effect on the job market.”

Of the Bay Area’s three major urban centers, Beacon’s outlook is brightest for the East Bay — barely. During 2017, the East Bay is expected to add jobs at a pace of 1.8 percent, while the South Bay job market will grow 1.5 percent and the San Francisco-San Mateo area will expand at a feeble pace of 0.7 percent to 1.1 percent, it said. These three areas might all lag the job growth in California this year: Statewide employment is expected to expand at a range of 1.6 percent to 2.2 percent this year, Beacon projected.

“These regions, having seen many years of very strong job growth, are now shifting into a slower pace of growth,” Kleinhenz said.

During 2016, job markets grew by 2.9 percent in the Bay Area, 3.2 percent in the San Francisco-San Mateo region, 3.1 percent in the East Bay and 2.9 percent in Santa Clara County, the state’s Employment Development Department reported.

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The technology sector will continue to expand, but Beacon said tech jobs will grow at a more robust pace in the East Bay compared with the other two major urban centers in the Bay Area.

“As of May 2017, East Bay tech employment grew by 4.1 percent yearly compared to 0.8 percent in San Francisco-San Mateo and 3.7 percent in Santa Clara County,” Beacon reported.

The problems the region faces are difficult but not impossible, said Stephen Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy.

“This could absolutely disrupt the growth surge in the Bay Area economy,” Levy said. “The problems are solvable, but if we don’t fix this, they will cut into growth.”

Many workers face grinding commutes of well over an hour to get to the major employment centers in the Bay Area. One economic expert warned that this could unleash a talent drain from Alameda County and Contra Costa County.

“We are losing some of our best talent in the East Bay to Santa Clara County and San Francisco,” said Darien Louie, executive director of the East Bay Economic Development Alliance for Business. “They live in the East Bay and they are commuting to Silicon Valley and San Francisco because those areas have a greater density of tech companies.”

But the job crunch and housing woes have battered more than just high-tech employees, Beacon and other experts noted.

“Lower-wage wage workers simply cannot afford to live here, adding more strain to an already tight labor market,” the Beacon report stated in its separate outlooks for Santa Clara County, the East Bay and the San Francisco-San Mateo metro area, a warning that also applied to California generally.

The woes of lower-skilled workers shouldn’t be ignored amid the current housing and traffic crisis, experts said.

“We still need restaurants, hotels, dry cleaners, entertainment venues, and we are really hard pressured to get the employees for that because they have to commute so far to get to work,” Louie said.