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> these units don't get built overnight These units don't get built at all without immigration since that's where much of the labor pool is coming from. The p
by hypeit 3y ago
> these units don't get built overnight
These units don't get built at all without immigration since that's where much of the labor pool is coming from.
The problem isn't immigration, the problem is that the US housing stock is designed to satisfy the desire to live in a sitcom style/hgtv flipped mcmansion.
- SenAnder 3y ago> These units don't get built at all without immigration since that's where much of the labor pool is coming from. There are plenty of countries with negligible immigration and without housing crises, so this is clearly false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne... This is a common argument - anything done by immigrants is assumed to be only achievable with immigrants, despite numerous countries offering counterexamples, usually even the same country a few decades ago. The same population that built the country is assumed to be incompetent at any task they hand over to immigrants.
- tivert 3y ago[flagged]
- mwbajor 3y agoYes, house flipping is bad but more people means more places to live. Also, no one buys "down", they only buy "up" so even poor immigrants put upward pressure on the system.