re: Here’s how and why our kids can’t buy a house. Thanks Obama.

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while also deporting the very people who build homes, making labor even more expensive

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Leftists just love slave labor.

these are just a bunch of people bitchin that "they" can't buy a house and calling it "we" can't buy a house

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Point out the flaws in my logic. 95% of the people that build homes around me are Latino. What has Trump done to lower housing prices in his 4.5 years in office.

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He puts a priority on individual spending power and economic activity. He also has put more downward pressure on interest rates than any politician in recent memory.

As to the flaw in your logic, you are saying housing is currently unaffordable, and that deporting the current labor will make the affordability issue worse. Presumably this would be due to decreased labor supply. The net result, by your own logic, is less homes being built at currently unaffordable prices.

The point is, if you consider housing unaffordable now, why would we want to produce more at unaffordable rates? If we had people flooding into this country to work at those rates, is it possible that the labor no longer needs to be imported? Particularly if those inflated labor wages are being exported back home (since most of the laborers are here under protected asylum and not on any particular track to citizenship), I don’t see a compelling reason to keep them here. And by my anecdotal observation, the quality of the work absolutely sucks, and any particular job has 1-5 out of 10 people that are learning on the job, meaning they don’t have any particular skills worth paying unaffordable rates for.