Dan Stein on whether Donald Trump regrets taking Jared Kushner's
advice to downplay the National Question on the campaign trail
against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://www.fairus.org/blog/2023/02/10/rent-too-damn-high-joe-bidens-mass-immigration-agenda-isnt-helping>
| Myopic media outlets, blinkered academics and craven politicians
| don't connect the dots, but the annual influx of millions of
| immigrants is clearly inflating the demand in an already overheated
| market for housing and increasing costs commensurately.
|
| According to an analysis not mentioned by the president:
|
|| An increase in the number of immigrants equal to 1 percent of a
|| metropolitan area's total population was linked with a 0.8 percent
|| increase in rents and a 0.8 percent increase in home prices.
||
|| This same increase in immigrants was associated with a 1.6
|| percent rise in rents, and a 9.6 percent rise in home prices in
|| surrounding metro regions - the effect of more people fleeing
|| congested, immigrant-heavy urban centers.
|
| Apologists for the immigration lobby blame zoning laws, local
| officials and every other conceivable scapegoat. Yet these factors,
| while significant, do not tell the whole story. Cities such as
| Houston, Phoenix, Atlanta and Charlotte have lax, even non-existent,
| zoning regulations but residential costs are surging in those
| cities, in part because of historically large arrivals of
| immigrants.

Has Ron DeSantis noticed that immigration to Florida has raised
prices for Floridians trying to buy homes and does Susie Wiles
worry that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will allow DeSantis
to use their blackboard to connect the dots for legacy American
prole GPO primary voters?

John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"Republicans, Trump included, have always been too kind to their
enemies. Democrats typically aren't and Biden isn't. One of these
two camps has radically changed America and continues racking up
victories against opponents. There's a lesson here." - Pedro
Gonzalez
<URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1565509764116893696>

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