> 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 negligibl

> 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.