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Housing affordability and Immigration should be closer. What does everyone think is going to happen to the affordability of housing by continually flooding the nation with millions and millions of people each year?
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What do they expect the government to do to make housing more affordable?
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Deporting 10 million illegal competitors would be a great start.
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The time of affordable housing has long since past man. That was ■■■■ our grandparents got to do.
They better learn to make do with house trailers. And even that’s getting out of control now.
You think they are the reason why housing isn’t affordable?
My guess, only tow things will satisfy them that the problemis being addressed:
- return to sub 3% interest rates
or - housing crash.
Resources spent on taking care of millions of new unvetted migrants of unknown skills will take up resources that could be used elsewhere so yes, it will have some effect. And was completely unnecessary.
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Those government resources, used on “illegals” can instead be used on mortgages? How?
Cash and many other resources are fungible. You don’t think providing the upkeep of millions of migrants doesn’t drain resources that could be used elsewhere?
If instead of just opening the border we had a sane policy of legally admitting skilled workers, we would have more resources to build more houses.
Supply and demand is a big part of the reason yes. It’s also because of the lack of good paying jobs, many also being taken by illegals, the rising cost of housing materials, and the high cost of gas, and the highest interest rates in almost 50 years. All factors driven by the disastrous policies of Joe Biden.
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I’ve been wondering lately if housing has really gotten more expensive, or it is simply that our dollars have lost their value. I bought my first house in 1988 that was 950sf with three tiny bedrooms and one bath. I paid 60k for it at 9.875 interest! In 1972 the house sold brand new at 20k. My payments at the time were 650. 650 dollars in in 1988 was a lot of money! Today the city tells me my house is worth 175k, and they hit me up for over 2k in property taxes every year.
The thing is, in 1988 we didnt have so many other things competing for our dollars. Our monthly cable bill (if we had it) was about 20 dollars a month. Now many people have a monthly cable bill over 200. Our phone bill for the family was less than 25.00. Today every one has a cell phone with many being 100 a month per person!
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I’m just confused as to why you are blaming illegals for housing not being affordable. The illegals y’all claim have no skills are coming here and immediately able to afford homes?
It’s really only one of the two if they are basing their vote on this issue.
People can either afford a home or they can’t. They’ll either buy at the high interest rate, or hold off on buying a home in hopes rates come down. But it’s very rarely the deciding factor in whether or not you can buy a home.
Illegals probably do play a part on it.
I suspect their part is smallish and limited primarily to their role as tenants. There certainly are landlords who specialize in housing illegals.
If you had a nanny agency, or a landscaping business, or a farm workers business, or a construction company etc. with dozens and dozens of illegal employees the opportunity would be too much to pass up.
(I can easily name an anecdote or two off the top of my head.)
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No, the illegals are getting their housing paid for by their uncle Joe. And let’s not forget the billions of dollars illegals are getting in other benefits as well. Food, medical care, education, vacations to the destination of their choice, even free genital mutilation for those who want it… Brandon has made it clear that illegals get preferential treatment over Americans in everything. In some places, illegals can simply move into someones house and take possession from the rightful owner.
The ones that are working are taking jobs from Americans which further hurts Americans ability to buy or rent a house (or any other necessity). How hard is it for you to understand that if an illegal is occupying a house or apartment, that is one less available for a tax paying American? Multiply that by millions…Do you not understand how supply and demand works? Can you not then apply the same principle to every other resource?
Do you really not understand that Joe Biden is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on illegals which is being done with borrowed money? And that doing this is driving costs of EVERYTHING up?
Do you not have even have a rudimentary understanding of basic economics?
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Asylum seekers. You are talking about them. They are no illegals and they aren’t getting their mortgages paid for.
Let’s assume this was true.
If Biden stopped spending billions on illegals, would you then want that money to be spend getting citizens mortgages paid for? Down payment assistance? Etc.
Sounds like more lib free give aways… which I’m ok with. But are you?
Beyond the fact that illegals are being housed in shelters, and welfare housing etc. (welfare housing is probably open to them only if they brought their kid with them or started on their first anchor baby) I offer the following anecdote:
When I lived on Long Island I literally lived across the street from a houseful of illegals.
It was a 2 BR bungalow and when I moved in the (presumed legal) owner of a lawncare company lived there.
How it started:
He lived there with his wife and small child and one employee.
He parked his trucks and machines in his yard and the eyesore caused a few neighbors to complain. (Didn’t really bother me but I am libertarian that way.)
How it went
As time went on he moved more an more employees into his basement and eventually he moved out and it became a dorm for his employees. (I dunno how many but I’d say 6, which is far too many for that tiny house.)
How it ended
It ended when his employees put up a privacy fence and began using the large yard to dump tons and tons of leaf waste in the backyard. (cheaper and easier than taking it to the proper commercial composting yard.)
Interesting story. I’m still failing to see how housing affordability can be blamed on illegals? I know it wasn’t your claim, so I am necessarily looking for you to defend it.
