Comment on Why limit immigration?

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is probably impossible to happen because the United States does not have a king.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks for pointing that out

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• 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.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So have and enforce building codes. Sounds like a simple problem with a simple solution.

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    • 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.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Building codes bring price up, more supply brings prices down, sounds like a wash.

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  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sounds like an awful slippery slope 🙄

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