Posted on 12/11/2025 11:05:57 AM PST by SoConPubbie
The report, published annually by HUD, looks at “worst-case housing needs,” which is defined as Americans who are low-income but who do not receive government assistance or welfare and who pay more than one-half of their income toward housing costs.
“Between 2021 and 2023, cases of worst-case needs remained elevated at 8.46 million households, virtually the same as the 2019-to-2021 period,” the report details, pointing to Biden’s bringing millions of migrants to the U.S. as a critical factor in why and how so many low-income Americans became increasingly strained by housing costs:
One key cause of elevated worst case needs is immigration. Between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than 6 million—the largest such increase over such a short period in American history. The foreign-born population now stands at more than 53 million individuals, making up the highest share of the American population in history. This immigration-driven increase in households has contributed to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices. In fact, in some markets, immigration has accounted for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in recent years. [Emphasis added]
This year’s report shows two realities. The first is that economic growth has been insufficient to lift the wages of low-income renting families high enough to make rent affordable. The second is that national macroeconomic policies, such as record immigration, have combined to drive sustained high rental demand, which has continued to place upward pressure on rent prices. [Emphasis added]
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In part because of mass immigration, the HUD report states that in 2023, fewer than 60 affordable housing units were available per 100 American renters considered “very low-income,” and fewer than 40 affordable units were available per 100 American renters considered “extremely low-income.”
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“When you have over 12 million people coming over our borders, unchecked and unvetted, this was straining our housing market from a supply standpoint, from an affordability standpoint,” Turner said.
Turner said he wants to see the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and the administration continue on its trajectory of deporting millions of illegal aliens “that are taking housing from the American people.”
So supply was constant and demand jumped way up. Any Econ 101 student knows what happens to price when the demand curves shifts.
So Democrats policies are unaffordable, and have led to the affordability crisis!
The answer for stupid and disenfranchised Americans is to elect more Democrats who are communists.
You can’t even make that stuff up it’s so stupid it’s laughable.
If homelessness was caused by high housing prices, deporting 2.5M illegal aliens would reduce homelessness.
But homelessness is caused by drugs, not a lack of funds.
So maybe the lower working classes will get a price break in rent, which is good.
Anyone who can’t see the relationship between an extra millions of adults needing homes and the cost of housing going up doesn’t understand how things work.
There are plenty here on FR that unfortunately cannot see the obvious.
The rise in demand for housing and product, is the very reason that large corporations love and PUSH Representatives to allow it, and Legislate laws to enhance mass migration.
Rank and file Citizens do not hold migration in high regard, the Presidents down to School Teachers do.
Did the same to rents.
Affordability was caused by Uniparty . Trump needs to make it clear who did this all the time.
Yes. A mailman here figured out there were too many residents in an apartment on his records so he turned them in. He said they were somehow tipped off and all suddenly left.
All the agents found were nine single mattresses, jammed across the floor in tight rows. No furniture.
Mailman said illegals sometimes establish a mailing address to legally receive identity theft scammed new card cards and debit cards and then take off when they get them.
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