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Posted on 07/11/2026 8:34:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Economics 101: Increase supply and prices go down. Raise demand, and prices go up.
That's what we are seeing in spades in the housing market in the wake of Joe Biden releasing as many as 14 million illegals into the interior of the country.
Housing prices in the U.S. went up. More people competing for the same supply of housing will do that. And illegals, who qualify for public subsidy programs allowing them to buy over other Americans, were ravenously buying. They also fill public housing, leaving Americans to go without, and populate growing 'informal' shantytowns, though President Trump is trying to put a stop to it.
That's called a classic demand shock, which has the same effect as inflation, but isn't the same as inflation, given that if the problem can be removed, the price hikes go away, not gradually but suddenly. It's a very good additional argument for mass deportation.
According to the Washington Post, which has a nit-picky piece attempting to deflect the actual rising-price problem:
Drafted by economists Daniel Wilson of the San Francisco Fed and Xiaoqing Zhou of the Dallas Fed, the working paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the local economic effects of what the authors call an unprecedented boom in unauthorized immigration, which added 7 million people to the U.S. population between early 2021 and early 2024.
The authors used restricted court records showing where immigrants settled, along with records of migrants granted temporary permission to enter the country. The study found that an inflow of unauthorized workers equal to 1 percent of the local workforce raised area home prices about 2.2 percent and rents about 1.4 percent, with no detectable pickup in home building to absorb the demand.
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From Washington Post:
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These estimates imply that, in the average metropolitan area, unauthorized immigration raised house prices by 6.6 percent from early 2021 to early 2024. The actual home price growth was 22.4 percent in those markets over the period. This means unauthorized immigration explains roughly 30 percent of home-price growth — a meaningful contribution, but not a 30 percent increase in home prices as stated by Trump.
Pack them in like cord wood and charge what the traffic will bare...of course lock your doors...that’s a given and kiss your safe neighborhood good bye....
Say thanks brandon.
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That means it’s 150%+ over last 15 years. Duhhhh, it’s so obvious, and the dem solution is, I guess free money to pay for it?
If they kicked all the illegals and indian h1b’s out of DFW it would be like when Manson said ‘there’d be none of you left’
White kids and people in that area would be in a paradise, but nope.
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