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It sounds like you're saying SF's housing crisis is due to illegal immigration. That's obviously not true.
by yodon 7y ago
It sounds like you're saying SF's housing crisis is due to illegal immigration. That's obviously not true.
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- amluto 7y agoI wouldn’t say it’s entirely obvious. I think the argument goes that illegal immigrants take jobs and thus displace legal residents, making them homeless. I find this implausible in SF. Housing is so insanely expensive that, even if illegal immigrants displace legal residents 1:1 and the legal residents can’t find any other work at all, the jobs in question wouldn’t pay living wages in SF regardless. (To me, it seems that the US economy is actually rather dependent on illegal immigrants and there would be a crash if we somehow managed to deport all illegal immigrants. A genuinely good immigration reform would need to take this into account.)