• MEDIA: WashPost Ignores Migration, but Blames Investors for Record Rent

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 12 10:31:02 2023
    Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
    on whether Kellyanne Conway has tested "affordable family formation"
    with potential Trump 2024 voters among legacy American proles: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/04/washpost-ignore-migration-but-blames-investors-for-record-rents/>
    | "Rents are simply about supply and demand," said Andrew Good, a
    | director at NumbersUSA. He added:
    |
    || Not only is it not a secret, but industry reports say the truth
    || out loud: It is beyond dispute that today's demand is driven by our
    || loose borders ... Rent-raising companies are just following the
    || market that Congress created. It will continue until voters put
    || their foot down.
    |
    | The combination of rising housing costs and decades of flatlined
    | wages is also pushing many people to crowd into overcrowded housing.
    | The New York Times reported in August 2020 about poor migrants
    | trying to live near their service-sector jobs in California's
    | Silicon Valley during the coronavirus crash:
    |
    || There were 12 people in three bedrooms, with a bathroom whose
    || door frequently required a knock and a kitchen where dinnertime
    || shifts extended from 5 p.m. well into the evening.
    ||
    || Karla Lorenzo, a Guatemalan immigrant who cleaned houses in San
    || Francisco and Silicon Valley, lived in the big room along the
    || driveway. Big is a relative term when a room has five people in it.
    || She and her partner, Abel, slept in a queen-size bed along the wall.
    || There was a crib for the baby at the foot, with the older children's
    || bunk bed next to that. The other housemates had similar layouts.
    |
    | The rising rents and shrinking salaries are also helping to spike
    | the number of homeless Americans.

    Does Ron DeSantis have an opinion on single family home zoning and
    does it differ from that of Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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