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Stephen Jacob Smith
@stephenjacobsmith.com

“Nearly two-thirds of builders said immigration enforcement is affecting their labor force, up from 23% in March and 13% a year ago, according to a September John Burns Research & Consulting survey…[NAHB] found the cost of labor had increased a median of 4.2% from the previous year.”

wsj.comThe Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build HousesHome building, which relies on foreign-born workers, is suffering a labor shortage that is freezing projects and raising costs.

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First Class Duck
@firstclassduck.bsky.social

Meanwhile the people who cheer this on argue that the deportations will free up housing stock. Of course, they wouldn't dare to live in those neighbourhoods, let alone have the capital to fix up those homes if they needed renewal...

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@lakecounty1975.bsky.social

It frees up current housing while bottlenecking future housing, since immigrants are a big part of the construction industry. Plus it negates all the other economic contributions they make. Also, the immigrants that have been in construction for years have experience that's not replaced overnight.

First Class Duck
@firstclassduck.bsky.social

The delusional ones at the other place tend assume insane counts for the number of undocumented residents in the country, and secondly, assume that they did shoddy work in the first place that will magically be done by out of work (white) Americans at the cost owner profits.