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Former President Donald Trump has announced a new proposal aimed at restricting illegal immigrants from accessing federal housing subsidies if he is re-elected in 2024. Speaking at a recent rally, Trump outlined his plan to prevent undocumented immigrants from renting government-subsidized apartments or receiving mortgages. His proposal seeks to tighten regulations, requiring housing providers to verify the legal status of renters as a condition for receiving federal assistance. During the rally, Trump stated, "When I return to the White House, we will require all companies receiving federal housing subsidies to verify citizenship or legal residency." His remarks come as part...

A resident of Springfield, OH, has told a city commission meeting that locals are being displaced from their homes to make way for Haitian migrants. The man, who has not been named, said the federal government was paying “triple the rent” for Haitians arriving in the town, thus incentivizing landlords to prioritize immigrants over existing residents. Addressing the city commission, the resident – who said he’d worked with the homeless community for more than 25 years – said he didn’t know of “a single homeless Haitian in this town because they all got vouchers” from the federal government. A resident...

A small Pennsylvania town is up in arms over a proposal to turn an abandoned Civil War-era school into a shelter for hundreds of migrant families — with residents and lawmakers vowing to put a stop to the “foreign invasion.” News of the plan to turn the former Scotland School for Veterans Children building in Franklin County into a migrant shelter surfaced publicly this week after the owners of the sprawling property recently started making inquiries about its potential usage, local officials said. The Greene Township Board of Supervisors said a representative from USA Up Star, an Indiana-based disaster response...

Ask any budget expert in Washington to explain the ballooning deficit and debt, and Social Security and Medicare will be high on the list of causes. That’s wrong. The real driver, the elephant in the room, is means-tested social-welfare spending—Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, federal housing subsidies and almost 100 other programs whose eligibility is limited to those below an income threshold. True, Social Security and Medicare are a drain on general revenue and will become big fiscal problems if not reformed. But they aren’t the major source of our current...

NYC Just decided to evict every family living in its shelter system. The shelters are at capacity, and the city claims evictions must happen to make room for new arrivals, who will also be evicted after their shelter stay expires...

Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal. Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had “taken over” a series of apartment buildings in Aurora—and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized...

A single mother from Massachusetts says that illegal migrants from Venezuela, who live in the apartment below her, have started complaining to the landlord about everything she does and are now conspiring to get her evicted. She claims the landlord is receiving government funding to rent one of the apartments to these migrants, and she believes they want to get her out to have their friends to move into her apartment.

You won't need to roam very far on the streets of any of New York City's five boroughs to get an earful from legal residents about the situation in the city's shelters for illegal migrants. Even among traditionally liberal Democrats, people want the shelters to be cleared out and returned to their normal functions as hotels, public housing units, or public municipal facilities. The overflowing migrant shelters have caused nothing but problems, running down property values, promoting higher crime rates, and eliminating homeless housing for legitimate homeless citizens, including American veterans. Perhaps now, however, the municipal government has heard their...

A Colorado landlord has agreed to sell a troubled apartment complex that was taken over by the violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua. Landlord Zev Baumgarten has been fighting with the Denver suburb of Aurora over the Aspen Grove after the city accused him of allowed it to become a trash-ridden, gang-infested hellhole, according to records obtained by the Denver Gazette. Baumgarten is also the owner of another apartment complex where a viral video showed a crew of gun-toting thugs breaking into a unit, according to the Gazette. Baumgarten’s company has now agreed to sell, lease, or find some...

A single mom in Durham, N.C. is finally getting her home back after squatters took it over. Two people booked Farzana Rahman's two-bed, two-bath property via Airbnb for seven months. They then refused to leave when their stay was up in May 2024, claiming they're "legal residents" of the home. Rahman ended up taking them to court to get her property back. But after they didn't show up to the hearing, the judge sided with Rahman and issued an eviction order. The Durham Sheriff's County Office served it to the guests on July 3, 2024. Rahman changed the locks and...

President Trump is such a refreshingly bold and honest candidate compared to Kamala. Regarding illegal aliens, he has made his intentions clear: deport them! Some meek and effete naysayers will immediately question the practicality of deporting millions of illegals, but there may be a way to efficiently transport them whence they came. Presuming they have been identified and corralled (a big presumption, perhaps), how do we transport so many of them? Well, tragically, illegal aliens seem to be familiar with the inside of freight containers. However, there's such an abundance of them that they don’t have to be packed in...

An elementary school in Colorado could be turned into a shelter for migrants as they continue to flood across the country's southern border. The building which is currently standing empty in Denver has been floated as an option and is being considered by the city's Democratic Mayor. The specific school property involved, which is owned by Denver Public Schools, has not been made public, but city officials say they are making contingency plans to turn it into emergency accommodation.

It appears a bill coming out of the California legislature giving cash to illegal immigrants for down payments on houses was too extreme for even leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom. On Friday, the man known to some as "Gov. Hair Gel" vetoed Assembly Bill 1840, the "California Dream for All" loan program, which would have allowed "undocumented" immigrants to apply for loans of up to 20 percent of a home's value or up to $150,000 for help with the down payment.The question is, is the governor making a move toward the center after his shadow presidential campaign failed and Team Kamala...

During an interview with FOX 5 New York on Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) defended the city offering migrant families money to exit the shelter system instead of changing the right to shelter law by stating that the right to shelter law isn’t the issue here because migrants are “here legally, and it is the responsibility of the federal government to not say New York City must pick up the price tag for it.” Co-host Bianca Peters asked, “[Y]ou’re going to be offering migrant families up to $4,000 to exit the city shelter system. What do you...

As Colorado lawmakers debate over how to confront rapidly increasing housing costs, more than a dozen city and town councils on the Western Slope have voted to support allowing local taxes on vacant homes and short-term rentals. The concepts, pitched by the Colorado Association of Ski Towns, or CAST, would have to be passed by the Colorado legislature and approved by local voters before they could take effect anywhere. “The lack of available and attainable housing for employees in Colorado mountain resort communities has reached a crisis level,” CAST wrote in the legislative policy statement approved by the towns. “The...

New York City officials are giving $5,000 in grants and gift cards to illegal migrants to help rent their own apartments in the city’s inflated housing market. The Asylee Moveout Assistance grants are not being given to poor Americans, nor even to young Americans who wish to move to New York City — even though the city’s housing costs have been inflated by the government welcome for more than 200,000 economic migrants. So far, the grants have been given to 150 migrant families and pregnant women, a city official told Gothamist, a New York media site.

Housing affordability in the United States has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent years, as house prices surged to historical highs during and after the pandemic and mortgage rates have risen steeply over the past three years, as the Fed tried to rein in inflation.It all began with a surge in demand for houses during the Covid-19 pandemic, when many Americans, flush with cash from government stimulus checks, reevaluated their living situation and sought more space amid stay-at-home orders and the sudden possibility of remote work. Further fueling demand were the historically low mortgage rates after the...

Harrowing new footage has captured the moment an alleged Venezuelan gang seized control of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. The heavily-armed mob are seen storming through the residence brandishing guns in the video that emerged on Wednesday. A man in a hoodie lugs a high-powered rifle and pounds on a door in the building, while several others wield pistols. 'A GANG HAS TAKEN OVER several apartment complexes in Aurora!' local council member Danielle Jurinsky wrote on Twitter. Cops refused to confirm whether the gunmen belong to the infamous Tren de Aragua cartel, but council member Jurinksy told Fox 31...

Home prices, and therefore the American Dream, are the most “unaffordable … in history,” according to the latest data. “Home prices hit a new record in June amid an ongoing housing shortage, even as high mortgage rates continued to push affordability out of reach for millions of Americans,” reports Fox Business. The report adds, “Prices increased 5.4% nationally in June when compared with the previous year,” which is only down slightly from “the 5.9% pace recorded the previous month.” “The upward pressure on home prices is making this the most unaffordable housing market in history,” Bright MLS’s chief economist told...