Thread: Op-ed: The Unprecedented Migrant Crisis Worsens Our Housing Shortage

Op-ed: The Unprecedented Migrant Crisis Worsens Our Housing Shortage


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By Eric Gordy on August 6, 2024



The housing shortage looms large as our nation faces a critical presidential election. Just last week, the National Association of Realtors released new data revealing home prices in the United States reached a record high in June 2024. It’s no wonder, then, that housing costs are a top priority for young voters.

Unfortunately, some in Washington, D.C., continue to turn a blind eye to a key factor exacerbating this crisis: Mass illegal immigration.

Houses have been in short supply since the Great Recession, when housing production steadily declined, especially the construction of “affordable” apartments, which declined by 4.7 million units from 2015-2020.

However, housing demand has only increased, driving up the cost of living.

As of 2024, the U.S. was short somewhere between 4 to 7 million housing units.

The shortage of affordable and multifamily housing is especially severe, as multifamily construction has declined since 2021, dropping 14%. Considering that incomes have not kept pace with rising housing costs, these increased costs are especially harmful to lower-income families seeking multifamily units.

Additionally, rising production costs have disincentivized developers from building more multifamily units, worsening the problem.
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They destroy our housing and our communities.

They overcrowd our schools, roads, parks, healthcare system, courts, jails, and prisons.

They get on the free gravy train, overbreed in poverty for free tax dollars, to live as cheap as possible off our backs.

They stuff over 10 people into one housing unit to live cheap and send BILLIONS back over the border, not spent in our economy.

They lower our property values which lowers taxes collected for local and state services abused by them, services for the benefit of hard-working American citizens who are here legally.

The neighborhoods turn into gang infested, drug infested, raping, thieving, carjacking, overbreeding, dirty, disease infected, trash infested dumps just like where they came from.

No Amnesty #8

No Anchor Baby

No DACA

No Path to Stay

No Free Stuff

No School

No Healthcare

No Housing

No Driver's License

No Voting

No court, no rights, deport them all.