Here’s something the previous administration never wanted to admit. When you flood a country with millions of people who need places to live, housing gets more expensive for everyone already here. It’s not rocket science. It’s supply and demand, the kind of basic economics they used to teach before ideology replaced common sense.
Scott Turner, the Trump administration’s Housing and Urban Development Secretary, isn’t mincing words about what happened during Biden’s border free-for-all. Speaking at the Great American State Fair this week, he laid out the connection between open borders and the housing affordability crisis that’s crushing American families. “American houses are for American people,” Turner said, and honestly, the fact that this statement might sound controversial to some people tells you everything about how far we’ve drifted.
The numbers back him up. A recent Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper found that every one percent increase in unauthorized immigrant workers correlates with a 2.2 percent jump in home prices and a 1.4 percent spike in rents. Think about that for a second. Your rent didn’t just go up because landlords got greedy. It went up because demand exploded while supply stayed flat.
Turner estimates tens of millions of illegal immigrants entered under Biden’s watch. Those people need housing. They compete for apartments. They drive up prices in neighborhoods where American families are already stretched thin, trying to scrape together down payments or make rent each month. This isn’t about xenophobia or hatred. It’s about prioritizing citizens in their own country, which used to be considered a basic governmental responsibility rather than some radical position.
The Trump administration is tackling this from multiple angles. Beyond the immigration crackdown that’s already underway, Turner pointed to two executive orders aimed at removing regulatory barriers that make housing construction needlessly expensive. There’s also a push to expand mortgage credit access and cut through the bureaucratic red tape that the previous administration seemed to multiply like rabbits.
You know what’s interesting? The media acts like caring about housing affordability is some fringe concern, yet it’s one of the biggest issues facing ordinary Americans right now. Young couples can’t buy their first home. Families can’t upgrade when they have another kid. Retirees on fixed incomes watch their rent eat up larger chunks of their Social Security checks. Meanwhile, the same voices that lectured us about compassion created policies that made all these problems worse.
Turner insists this is a top priority despite perceptions otherwise. The administration is already implementing changes designed to increase housing supply and bring costs down. Will it happen overnight? Of course not. But at least someone’s acknowledging the problem honestly instead of pretending that importing millions of people into an already tight housing market has zero consequences for American citizens.
The free market works beautifully when you let it, but it can’t overcome artificial demand created by policy failures. Limited government means getting out of the way of builders and developers who want to construct more homes. It means cutting regulations that add six figures to construction costs for no good reason. It also means controlling who enters the country and ensuring that American workers and families come first when resources are limited.
This approach combines traditional conservative principles with practical solutions. Individual liberty means Americans should have the freedom to afford a place to live without competing against an endless stream of illegal immigrants. Free market capitalism works better when government isn’t simultaneously throttling supply with overregulation while flooding demand through open borders.
Turner’s message is simple but powerful. America should prioritize Americans. Housing policy should help citizens, not make their lives harder. And if that sounds radical to you, maybe you’ve been listening to the wrong people for too long.
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