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Biden’s illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds
New York Post ^ | 07/05/2026 | Fox Business

Posted on 07/06/2026 1:00:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

A new Federal Reserve working paper found the record surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration triggered higher home prices and rents.

The findings arrive as immigration remains a polarizing political issue. Republicans argue former President Joe Biden’s border policies strained housing and public resources, while Democrats say immigration helped ease labor shortages and supported economic growth.

The paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, combines immigration court records with government administrative data to measure how the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration between 2021 and 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; homeprices; housing; illegal; illegals; immigration; invaders; rent; rents

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1 posted on 07/06/2026 1:00:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Same article, different title: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386822/posts


2 posted on 07/06/2026 1:04:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SmokingJoe
The headline does not match the article or the original paper The paper says that the average house price increase was 22.4% and 30% of that, or 6.6%, was caused by the wave of illegals. The full paper is at The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets: New Evidence from Administrative Microdata .
3 posted on 07/06/2026 1:12:08 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: SmokingJoe

This information can be used in a great political ad against home grown commies - and brain-dead democrats who who don’t understand illegals beyond ‘more democrat votes’.


4 posted on 07/06/2026 1:47:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (The good thing about Commie Revolutions is they kill useful idiots first... Bye bye Harvard)
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To: SmokingJoe

Rises in:

Home prices
Rents
Murders
Rapes
Other crime
Healthcare costs
Welfare fraud
Election fraud

I’m starting to think maybe open borders isn’t such a good idea


5 posted on 07/06/2026 1:51:29 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: SmokingJoe

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”


6 posted on 07/06/2026 2:09:28 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald. )
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To: SmokingJoe

Sending all the people home and telling them they don’t need to work, here’s a wad of government money to pay for your daily life, here’s a wad of money for your business that’s shut down, here’s a wad of money for anything Covid related, might also have a little to do with this.

Biden was a political animal with no common or practical sense but totally ate up with himself: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4JlCYnL3mz/?hl=en

He should go down in history as a fool.

Immigration
Covid
Ukraine war
Corrupt (not saying he broke any laws, but he was for sale)

Foolish men in power have consequences.


7 posted on 07/06/2026 2:27:49 PM PDT by Red6
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To: SmokingJoe

It was Bidenskyyyyyy and his third world Woke Salad Kammie banana and pineapple girl who screwed up the American economy.


8 posted on 07/06/2026 2:32:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If two jackasses sneak onto a thoroughbred breeding farm, they'll still throw another jackass.)
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To: KarlInOhio

The paper says that the average house price increase was 22.4% and 30% of that, or 6.6%, was caused by the wave of illegals.
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Further increasing the demand for housing is more people living alone,and due in part to the dissolution of family life. The remainder of the increase was also due to leftist policies, specifically housing supply restrictions caused by low-density zoning, environmental regulations, the capital gains tax on sellers, and the war on landlords.


9 posted on 07/06/2026 2:49:35 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: SmokingJoe

Not to mention groceries, gasoline, homes, education, jobs, healthcare, and every other damn thing that falls out of the gringos’ big pinata.


10 posted on 07/06/2026 2:55:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If two jackasses sneak onto a thoroughbred breeding farm, they'll still throw another jackass.)
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To: SmokingJoe
Rand Paul:

You cannot flood local housing markets with millions of people and expect prices not to rise.

Now the Fed is confirming what common se

https://x.com/i/status/2074191652500177190

11 posted on 07/06/2026 3:19:27 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Wow! Really? Nobody saw it coming , and it’s such a surprise .... Jesus come now because peak stupid has arrived

What kills me is realtors… They knew it, they went along with and they’re part of the problem. Now they act like…Whaat? Realtors have been scum since birth


12 posted on 07/06/2026 3:46:35 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Maskot
Don't blame realtors.
Blame Biden.
Realtors can't control illegal immigration.
13 posted on 07/06/2026 3:52:11 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Biden’s responsible for real estate going up 30%?
Well thank you Joe. I own a bunch of homes and sure enough the value on all of them went way up during your term. You’re a corrupt baastud as is your family, but at least you put serious coin in my pocket.


14 posted on 07/06/2026 4:43:15 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: enumerated
I’m starting to think maybe open borders isn’t such a good idea

Especially when you consider the high expenses in kicking their illegal butts out of the USA. That helped lead to higher inflation because the gov’t can’t stay within budget. So we have huge rises in costs for everything because Biden couldn’t zip his barn doors.

15 posted on 07/06/2026 4:54:53 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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