Posted on 11/14/2025 11:13:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Vice President J.D. Vance discussed the nation’s affordability crisis and the difficulty for young Americans to purchase homes during an interview with FOX News host Sean Hannity.
"A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive," Vance told Hannity. "Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens, and at the same time, we weren't building enough new houses to begin with even for the population that we had, so what we're doing is trying to make it easier to build houses, trying to make it easier to build factories and things like that so that people have good jobs."
SEAN HANNITY: Let's talk about, obviously the economy is always front and center for most Americans. I would argue that, foundationally, everything's set. Trillions of dollars of committed monies for manufacturing, largest tax cuts in history.
It took quite a while, over a year and a half for the Reagan tax cuts to kick in, ended up with 21 million new jobs, longest period peacetime economic growth. President Trump now has given us the largest tax cut in history, no tax tips, social security, overtime. Then you add the energy component.
So, for people now that maybe are still suffering from the Biden-Harris economic hangover, when do we really see the engine of the economy start to take off?
VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: Well, some of it's already started, Sean, but some of it is going to take a long time because we inherited a disaster. We inherited the highest peacetime debt and deficits in the history of the United States of America. We inherited the worst inflation crisis in at least the last 40 years,...
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at least 30 million. when I was a child, they said that they were 10 to 12,000,000 illegals here. so take that 30 million and add in all of their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren because they have kids very early. And yes, that is one of the reasons why housing is so expensive.
Illegal immigrants, the government spending like drunken sailor with someone else’s wallet, and local, state, and federal restrictions on building.
Easy to understand when you put 2 and 2 together. Does it mean people will buy what he says or does the left have to find a way to change the subject?
I’ve started to see some low income housing opening up(rental)
Truth be known it’s more like 60 million +.
Ya think???
Added to this was moron governors in blue states such as NY’s village idiot, who invited illegals to their cities where the housing costs were already out of control....not only did they invite the illegals to their cities, in many places landlords were given large bonuses ($15K) to give these people apartments, which was paid for (bonus and monthly rent) by the state government...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/nyregion/migrants-relocation-ny.html
Supply and Demand, baby.
Around here, Springfield, Ohio, the landlords of low income rentals were throwing out their tenants to rent to ‘Humanitarian Parolees’. .gov paid higher rents for HPs.
It does seem like if you removed 30 million people from America that aren’t supposed to be here, that a whole giant gushing waterfall of good things would happen and that even a lot of new bonding would happen among those of us who remain and see the fruits of the bounty, and the renewed sense of community and national identity, and even of being needed and valued again.
Apparently 5 million of ‘em go to my Walmart.
Builders stopped building in New York when Kathy Hochul came up with her all electric house mandate eliminating any gas or oil for appliances. That reduced the housing supply quite a bit.
The irony is that these extremely expensive homes are being built by cheap illegal labor.
Maybe get some people off the streets, especially if the fentanyl pipeline really gets disrupted.
This guy is honest and extremely talented. And the Communists know it. 😁
Our senior apartments are very nice, with lawns and trees and dogs and cats . It recently became home to many people from Ukraine. I’ve heard that the government pays their rent though the Ukrainians I know bought a new SUV, flew back to Ukraine (the safe part) to see their daughter and their cat. Another Ukrainian couple I don’t really know has two SUVs, and the wife speaks English and has a job at the hospital.
How muuch financial aid to they need?
It’s amazing that VP Vance would even need to remind liberals of the basic, most fundamental, elementary subject of economics 101. Supply and demand. When demand outstrips supply, prices rise.
SPOT ON
Housing Is So Expensive Because We Flooded America With 30 Million Illegal Immigrants.
Another democrat key to the door to unlock socialism demand.
That may be true. However, based on our birthrate we do not have enough population growth to maintain our economy.
Which is one of the reasons why they are letting in so many immigrants.
Italy, South Korea and Japan are in bad shape because they have not been having enough babies for fifty years. The result is that houses in non tourist parts of Italy are much cheaper than they were 20-40 years ago. Even in rural Tuscany. It got so bad in some rural villages in southern Italy that they were willing to sell houses for 1 Euro IF you agreed to live in it and fix it up. They are also willing to give a 7% income tax rate in the southern part of the country. IF you will move to a town of less than 20K people.
Now Japan is going to allow immigration for the first time since Kubla Khan tried moving there and was destroyed by the Kamakazi(Divine Wind).
South Korea is really screwed. As is China to some extent. China admitted a few years back that they had a population of 1.4 Billion. Where as it used to be 1.5 Billion. That .1 rounding error is 100 million people they no longer have.
So sorry, Me too Wong. All because the ONE CHILD policy.
My point in all this rambling is WE ARE LUCKY that people actually want to come here. That the price of our houses has continued to go up. Yes, it doubled in most places in a five year period. Which made it unaffordable. Prices have come down in Austin and other markets. Would you rather have the biggest investment of most peoples lives be worth HALF what they bought it for?
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