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Immigrants do put pressure on housing and health services though. As well as directly causing job losses by dumping wages. Of course, a magical policy may have
by mantas 9y ago
Immigrants do put pressure on housing and health services though. As well as directly causing job losses by dumping wages.
Of course, a magical policy may have stopped those issues. But taking in a lot of immigrants and not changing policies accordingly is what causes havoc.
- okmokmz 9y agoHow much pressure does immigration put on housing? According to this article the US has 18.9 million vacant homes. Even if every homeless person and illegal immigrant in the United States received a home there would still be a surplus https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733...
- mantas 9y agoOP was talking about UK. Which, in immigrant context, is mostly London. Which is truly sad housing situation. Talking your link, the problem is most of the vacant homes are where people don't want to live. You'd have 3.5mio people without incomes to maintain their housing. Why Silicon Valley has housing crisis if there're 18.9mio vacant houses? :)
- wool_gather 9y ago> directly causing job losses by dumping wages Largely a myth, according to fairly recent research. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/jobs/2012/05/04/what-immigration-means-for-u-s-employment-and-wages/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/jobs/2012/05/04/what-immigrat...
- mantas 9y agoIt may be different in US. But in EU were a lot of migration is at least a bit skilled, it’s very real. Society needs only so much plumbers or truck drivers. If immigrants come and agree to work for half of the wage, locals are priced out. Some of them may transition to management, but many of them have no skills nor will to do that. Let alone that few new managers are needed for barely bigger amount of people. I agree with your article if there was a massive need for people in X industry and they just filled the gap. But that’s not what usually happens, at least in Europe.
- wool_gather 9y agoFair enough; I don't know as much as perhaps I should about the European situation.