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I know it’s good for Blue Team redistricting, but I think we need to seriously reconsider the viability of moving every human on earth to 5 metro areas in the US.
Well it's those large metro areas that roll out the red carpet for them (assistance programs and sanctuary status), so I see no problem with it.
In a properly functioning market, new supply would be built when there is new demand. Perhaps they should try to figure out why that isn't happening.
Whoever has the money to develop housing is in a position to exploit the scarcity as well.
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 pres…
In other news, water is wet.
The fact that people are arguing over this is astonishing to me. Politics morphing into the religion of modernity is the worst thing that has happened this century thus far.
In a properly functioning market, new supply would be built when there is new demand. Perhaps they should try to figure out why that isn't happening.
Legal immigration also raise housing costs. And if we complain, we are labeled as racist.
In a properly functioning market, new supply would be built when there is new demand. Perhaps they should try to figure out why that isn't happening.
Legal immigration also raise housing costs. And if we complain, we are labeled as racist.
unauthorized? Are they trying to find a middle ground word between "illegal" and "undocumented"?
The research is impressive in its granularity. However, they seem to simply assert causality. It would seem far more likely that people (illegal or not) move to areas experiencing economic booms that, among other things, is push up home prices.
I'm sorry, but your argument sounds like the typical HN oversimplification that leads people to say they could build Dropbox in a weekend.