Comment on Why limit immigration?
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Immigration in excess and esspecially in combination with exploititive or unenforced labour laws and mismanagement of other resources and infrastructure, can decrease wages, and cause shortage of key resources. For example, if there is no new housing being built, but there is very high immigration levels, housing prices will rise, and availability will be limited.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Well sure, but then why not build more houses?
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Usually because those responsible for regulating housing are heavily invested in it, and like the fact that high immigration is pushing prices up. As usual, most things lead back to corrupt governments and capitalism.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Fair point. I say “why not just build houses” as if it’s easy, but it’s really not. If I were King of America I could force simultaneous policy changes (more immigration + more housing) but that’s unlikely to happen in reality.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It is probably impossible to happen because the United States does not have a king.
ackthxbye@feddit.org 6 days ago
Typically these quickly built housing is of such crappy quality that only immigrants will want to live there (because they can’t afford anything else anyway). This leads to the development of ghettos, with leads to the typical problems from crappy schools (that traps the kids in the lowest social class) to no cultural assimilation.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So have and enforce building codes. Sounds like a simple problem with a simple solution.
ackthxbye@feddit.org 6 days ago
You mean building codes that would hike the price to levels immigrants can’t afford? You could of course build social housing like a developed country but good luck doing that while republicans hold any kind of power. And even if you manage to get that done the amount of housing you can build is limited by the amount of money you are willing to invest into social housing.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sounds like an awful slippery slope 🙄