Check this out! A recent article* talks about blaming the migrants: “The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing,” by Rahim Kurwa!
J.D. Vance and others blame the migrants for the housing crisis in America.
A recent article shows the racist and xenophobic views of the current administration, and Vice President Vance has gone to the trouble of explaining the migrants are responsible for the housing crunch in this country. Sadly enough, he stands in front of the cameras and states this nonsense in a matter-of-fact fashion.
Migrants are NOT driving up the levels of rent and are NOT increasing the price of homes. Nor are the homeless.
This article by Professor Kurwa of the University of Illinois at Chicago reminds readers that home prices are up by 60% and the percentage of income needed to pay rent is up also. Kurwa tells us those are the realities or buying and renting in tis country. He goes on to say, “Meanwhile, stagnant wages, limited housing supply and lagging federal assistance have helped leave more than 770,000 Americans homeless.”
Vance goes on to argue that so many migrants coming in drives up the price of housing because those people are competing with American consumers trying to find a place to live. Vance and people of his ilk insist that deportations help, therefore, to bring the prices down. This nonsensical argument does not hold up. If anything, the deportations of the migrants drives prices even higher.
Why? There are fewer construction workers (if you deport them) to build the much-needed structures for people who can afford the high rents and the exorbitant price of a house. Your average homeless family has no way whatsoever they can rent and expensive apartment—much less buy a newly constructed home.
More and more homeless people does not equal lower rents or house prices.
In Chicago, the numbers of the homeless are frightening indeed: over 79,000 residents within the city are unhoused. In addition, the mayor’s office now puts the number of migrants in Chicago at over 53,000. By nature, all migrants are homeless because they did not bring housing with them.
But in Chicago, as in most major—and even minor—cities, there is a huge shortage of affordable housing. Some strong forces indeed want to keep apartment rents high, house prices elevated, and mortgages in the heavens. This is to say nothing of a variety of high taxes homeowners—and renters too—wind up paying just to live in a city.
As long as people accept the lies and nonsense—and cruelty—of the current administration in the White House, things will continue as they are in the USA.
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For more information, go to:
*“The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing, by Rawhim Kurwa, The Conversation: Academic Rigor, Journalistic Flair, The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing Clear explanation of some of the realities of the housing crunch. The administration continues to issue statements showing the anti-immigrant stance and the message that immigrants are to blame for most of what is wrong in America. High rents, high price of homes, general malaise—they are all because of those undocumented persons, according to Trump, Vance, and others.
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See also:
“Who is homeless in the United States? A 2025 update,” by
Lisa Camner McKay and Kenneth Cowles, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute/Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, March 12, 2025, Who is homeless in the United States? A 2025 update | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Good summary of what is happening nation-wide with the unhoused, where they tend to sleep, and numbers associated with the homeless population in the USA. In some cities, most unhoused people sleep outdoors at night; in other cities shelters are more common and used every night by the majority of the unkeyed people there.