Joe Biden is a man who thinks too much is not enough. It shows in his free-spending ways. (“Hey, Ukraine, have another billion. Make it 40 billion. There’s more where that came from!”)
It also shows in his magnanimity toward migrants and refugees and anybody from somewhere else who wants to live here. So far, in his brief but all too lengthy tenure, he’s admitted maybe two million illegal migrants, at least 70,000 and counting Afghani “refugees.” He’s in the process of welcoming at least 100,000 Ukrainians. And that’s not counting the illegal got-aways, the “guest workers,” the legal immigrants, the students, etc, etc. It adds up to many millions every year.
Each of those millions has to have a place to live. Many pool their resources and share apartments and houses, thus driving up rents past the point that most families can afford. In some U.S. cities, rents have risen just this year an average of 40 percent. The impact of newly resettled migrants and refugees is downplayed in the American press but discussed widely in Europe. For example, on April 12, Reuters reported that more than half the 4.5 million Ukrainian refugees who had left Ukraine by that time had gone to Poland, so far driving up rents in that country by 20 percent.
Many of the newcomers in the U.S. are themselves having trouble finding lodging, causing populations of some of the military bases housing the Afghans to skyrocket. The population of Fort Dix, New Jersey, for example, has swelled to a size greater than that of half the towns in the state. And that lodging is provided by the American taxpayer.
So, if your rent just shot up and you’re wondering why, you can look to Generous Joe–the man for whom too much is never enough.
For more, see Breitbart.