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    Vance sagt, Einwanderer hätten einen Wohnungsmangel verursacht. Ökonomen sind anderer Meinung.


    Vance sagt, Einwanderer hätten einen Wohnungsmangel verursacht. Ökonomen sind anderer Meinung.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/02/vance-immigration-housing/

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    1. Castle-Fire on

      “Vance told a racist lie about immigrants during debate”

      That’s a bit more honest of a title

    2. RamonaQ-JunieB on

      According to what Vance said last night, immigrants are the cause of everything that is wrong, ever has been wrong, or ever will be wrong in this country.

    3. ParkMan73 on

      Walz tried to call him out on it too.

      It’s simply doesn’t make sense the illegal immigrants are flush with cash buying up all the housing and driving prices up.

    4. 9mac on

      Schrödinger’s immigrant: poor and sucking up all of our resources, whilst rich and buying up houses with cash offers.

    5. No_Material5630 on

      According to Vance the following are caused by illegal immigration:    

      Job market and low wages     

      Housing crisis   

      Healthcare costs and horrible coverage 

      Inflation   

      Illegal weapons  

       Illegal drug use    

      Crime    

      Pet cuisine   

      Mind Hunter season 3 not existing  

       A temporary second moon    

       I know I’m missing other things.  

       Edit due to formatting 

    6. Scarlettail on

      I have an issue with this quote from one of the economists:

      >“I don’t think [new immigrants] are demanding the same type of dwellings that are pulling up prices,” said Dany Bahar, an economist at Brown University and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “These people are not competing for the same households as middle-class Americans.”

      The problem here is assuming that housing prices are up only for “middle-class households.” Rent has certainly gone up for plenty of working class people over the last few years, even if it’s stabilized in some places this year. I don’t know why there’s always this weird assumption that “housing” just means suburban homes and not renting. It sounds almost like a denial that there’s a housing crisis affecting so many people.

      Now, are immigrants causing it? Clearly they’re not at fault, but it’s tough to think the laws of supply and demand don’t apply to them. Yes, migrants tend to be poor and often live with family, but the more people in an area who want housing of any kind, the higher the price is going to be. That doesn’t mean we should deport them or put the blame on them, though. The issue, as Walz said, is needing more supply of affordable housing.

    7. Gabaloo on

      How many peoples grandparents were immigrants?  My grandma immigrated here from nazi Germany and built herself a life.

      Was she stealing homes from poor white Americans?

      This shit is so despicable and right out of the nazi playbook, non stop, constant scapegoating of a group of people

    8. Dubsecs- on

      Firms like BlackRock buying up all the housing in multiple states didn’t help.

    9. V-r1taS on

      “Don’t trust the experts, trust me. It was the immigrants.”

      “Don’t trust the videos, trust me. We had a peaceful transfer of power.”

      “Don’t look at the reversal of Roe v. Wade, trust me. I care about the right to choose.”

      “Don’t look at all the times we tried to repeal Obamacare, trust me. We saved it.”

      I’m detecting a theme here…

    10. Gwar-Rawr on

      illegals aren’t cutting taxes for the rich so they can buy all the housing making our lives harder.

      Illegals didn’t try to kill democracy on January 6th.

      Illegals can’t vote. Republicans are the ones voting to cut medicare medicaid food stamps and education funding.

      Republicans are ruining this country. That rapist fuck criminal Donald Epstein Trump is killing this country not immigrants.

      Stop printing money for Israel driving up inflation. That isn’t Illegals printing money for Israel.

      Republicans are driving Americans to hate minorities so their donors get richer. Fuck Maga and the Republican party.

      Republicans did not pass the border bill. Republicans didn’t secure the border under Trump or Biden.

      Republicans are clowns Beetlejucie Boebart, Marjorie Space Lasers, Matt Fucks Kids Gatez, Jim Clown Show Jordan aren’t passing laws they are cry baby bitch losers like Trump.

    11. jardinjeunefille on

      Common sense disagrees with Vance’s simplistic reasoning.

    12. YesterShill on

      All those illegal immigrants coming in and buying $600,000 homes for cash.

    13. Altrano on

      What about the elephant in the room? Are we going to talk about big investors both foreign and domestic buying up the housing inventory and driving up rental prices and home prices? Yes, there’s a shortage in construction; but there’s also an issue with corporations buying up available stock and driving up prices for individual buyers.

      There’s also the issue of collusion among investors to charge above market rates across the board for rentals. The DOJ currently has a lawsuit against REALPAGE.

    15. tjk45268 on

      Vance should have tried to attend a few more classes (and stayed awake) at OSU and Yale. He might have learned something useful.

    16. Danominator on

      Immigrants are so poor they are eating people’s pets but also buying all the houses

    17. Dense-Comfort6055 on

      Nope. No where close to truth. Housing crisis started with economic crisis and housing never rebounded

    18. Galliagamer on

      It’s the goddamn corporations buying up all the vacant houses to rent them out at ungodly high rents and so therefore sit empty for years that are causing the housing shortage.

      It’s also the goddamn developers that only build 3000 square foot million dollar mini mansions that no one can afford, instead of building smaller, modest, affordable units, that are causing the housing shortage. They also won’t build lower income apartments that aren’t built out of cardboard and cinder blocks but get rented out for outrid high rents.

      It’s the goddamn city managers that refuse to zone areas for condos or for manufactured homes, etc, because they don’t want to budge their tax brackets or, dog forbid, older people or first time buyers may move into town.

      Immigrants have nothing to do with it. Vance is full of shit.

    19. ConflictAcrobatic890 on

      According to Vance, immigrants caused the housing shortage but at the same time also are to blame for low level wages. Pick a side.

    20. bishpa on

      If there aren’t enough homes for all the workers then there aren’t enough homes for all the workers, regardless of who some of them are.

      It’s even more laughable that they think that building housing on federal lands is a plausible solution, instead of, you know, *near where the jobs are*.

    21. PTLTYJWLYSMGBYAKYIJN on

      JD Vance is downright evil. He is a liar every time he opens his mouth. I think the Republican party is actually trying to get it JD Vance, but they’re giving Trump a last ditch stand. In the meantime, since he has so many followers. Trump is like the hook for these Republican shenanigans. There’s so much more behind the hook.

    22. Taman_Should on

      As if we need a fucking economist to point out how dumb this statement is. It’s the same principle as bringing in Neil DeGrasse Tyson to “debunk” flat-earthers. Some ideas are so wrong, and so stupid, that it requires no professional authority to dismiss them. 

    23. -btechno on

      I’m pretty sure it’s not the destitute refugees trekking across the southern border with nothing but the clothes on their backs who are outbidding me with all cash offers.

    24. coreoYEAH on

      “Vance Says X, Experts disagree” would be one of the easiest books to write in history.

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