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That's a bad take. For one, illegal immigrants are a minority of the foreign born population. Secondly, even if the statistics are by some miracle not tortured
by AlotOfReading 4mo ago
That's a bad take. For one, illegal immigrants are a minority of the foreign born population. Secondly, even if the statistics are by some miracle not tortured out of the numbers, still obviously not a sufficient explanation. San Francisco for example has a small undocumented population (primarily from Asia), yet also has huge affordability issues from high rental demand and income disparity. There's no world in which Mexican fieldworkers are competing with FAANG developers for $4k/mo apartments in SoMa.
- bellowsgulch 4mo agoThey don’t need to. They only need to eat up all the low end housing.
- littlexsparkee 4mo agoI don't know that this would help the market all that much - these are often informal units, not up to code (and not cost effective to remedy), overcrowded (meaning fewer units made available than population share would suggest would come onto the market), and in neighborhoods outside of the core
- bellowsgulch 4mo agoI don’t know where you live, but in cities with millions of people in the southwest this is not even remotely true.
- littlexsparkee 4mo agoMakes sense - talking about the Bay Area so definitely different land dynamics