Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]

unauthorized? Are they trying to find a middle ground word between "illegal" and "undocumented"?

Undocumented immigrants "raised local house prices and rents without expanding housing supply" — obviously, since local governments of both parties hate anyone who doesn't already own and make it illegal to build more housing. Not an immigration problem, although obviously the Trump administration is trying to make it more expensive to build by deporting anyone brown regardless of whether or not they're lawfully present (or even a citizen), tariffs, and pretty much the entire scope of Project 2025.

You know, if they'd said 5%, I would buy it. 30% is a lie on the face of it. No one single factor dies that much.

Immigrants aren’t the ones restricting zoned capacity. That would be local government.

as in most matters of public controversy, both things are true.