I hear a lot of truly bad housing takes and “the housing crisis is due to illegal immigration” is one of the dumbest fucking housing takes I’ve ever heard

I am morbidly, nauseatedly curious what that "Federal Reserve study" actually says.

You know that classic problem of immigrants sneaking into the country illegally and buying up all the homes. I think they teach that at the war college.

Yes, but there's a lot of idiots out there who love simple answers that blame brown people.

💯. Everyone knows the housing crisis is because of transplants, legal immigration, *and* illegal immigration. Source: Long time residents on NextDoor dot com

Nextdoor nimbys have been doing that one for years.

You are absolutely right, and yet I'm sure that someone in Palo Alto will demand deportation as an alternative to building affordable housing at some point.

This playbook has already shown success in Canada — what I see of their social media is heavily bought in to the idea that their housing crisis is entirely due to immigrants taking all the homes.

My 14yo started playing a game, seeing how long Vance could make any question go back to immigration.

Right, and Vance is going to deport these people and then replace them with babies who are the product of forced birth, and then house them in homes in formerly federal land surrounded by oil and gas wells?

Immigrants create most of the housing.