A new federal investigation finds that record levels of immigration under Joe Biden significantly fueled demand for housing, worsening affordability for millions of working-class Americans.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
A Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report released this week links the Biden administration’s mass immigration policies to sharp increases in home prices and rents across the nation, particularly affecting low-income families.
The annual “Worst-Case Housing Needs” report defines affected households as those earning low incomes, receiving no government housing assistance, and spending more than half their income on rent or mortgage costs. Between 2021 and 2023, HUD recorded 8.46 million such households—virtually unchanged from the previous period, despite economic growth.
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The report directly attributes much of the affordability crisis to record immigration levels, noting that “between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than six million—the largest such increase over such a short period in American history.” HUD concluded that this “immigration-driven increase in households has contributed to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices,” adding that in some markets, migration “accounted for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in recent years.”
The analysis also warns that broader macroeconomic factors—including wage stagnation among low-income renters—have left the poorest Americans increasingly squeezed by rent inflation. In 2023, the agency found fewer than 60 affordable units per 100 very low-income renters, and fewer than 40 per 100 extremely low-income renters nationwide.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner told Fox Business that “we cannot forgo the thought that because of illegal immigration, because of people coming to our country, prices have risen, supply has been squeezed.” He added, “When you have over 12 million people coming over our borders, unchecked and unvetted, this was straining our housing market from a supply standpoint, from an affordability standpoint.”
Turner said he supports both Federal Reserve rate cuts to ease borrowing and the continuation of deportation operations under President Trump’s directive to remove “millions of illegal aliens that are taking housing from the American people.”
The report underscores how record immigration, combined with limited housing supply and stagnant wages, has deepened the affordability crisis, pushing millions of working-class Americans further from the dream of stable homeownership.
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