According to a Gallup poll last May, housing was the leading financial concern of Americans. In an address to the National League of Cities’ Conference, Vice President J.D. Vance explained one reason why many Americans have trouble affording a place to live.
Vance observed that “[W]hen we talk about housing and why costs are so high, we don’t talk enough about demand. And one of the drivers of increased housing demand, we know, is that we’ve got a lot of people over the last four years who have come into the country illegally, and that’s something we have to work on if we want to meaningfully reduce the cost of housing.”
He might have added that legal immigration contributes to the problem as well. Each year we admit around one million legal immigrants, and they need housing just as much as illegal aliens.
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