Interesting take, but he's using a problem to push his shitlib leaf socialism without addressing how his system solves any of this. Homes aren't affordable because you imported millions of jeets, and let chinks buy up all your land while your veterans got MAID'd. You can't blame corporate greed and scarcity economics when you doubled the denominator.
He is a shitlib, but not due to focusing on immigration. When Europeans first came to settle the United States, there was literally zero housing, outside of indian tents, most of it was complete wild wasteland. People were coming in from Europe by the millions, but housing prices weren't an issue at all, because everybody just built their own houses. Even today, if you look at amish communities, it is normal for families to have 3-5 or more children, but very few of those kids stay with their family past 30, they get married and move in into their new freshly built homes.
Excuse me if I feel a little frustrated when I see people saying that we don't have enough housing for everyone while I can clearly see that the amish are able to build an entire barn in a SINGLE DAY, that could potentially house 50-100 people in bunk beds. We are getting btfo'd by people stuck living in 18th century, we have
zero excuse.
The real issue, which is something these leftist shitlibs will never address is that housing is increasingly subject to stricter and stricter government regulations. Back in the 50-60s housing was super cheap, but it also possessed various toxic materials like lead, asbestos, PCBs, Polystyrene, arsenic, etc. People wish to get in a time machine and buy a house at that time period, but chances are, they'd doom one of their family members to die from preventable cancer or a stroke from living in such environment. Excluding things that I don't think anybody would argue was bad to remove, other things that became standard in recent decades were design reviews, community consultations, energy codes, environmental restrictions, regular inspections, etc. All of which costs money and is even worse in Europe, the land these shitlibs admire so much. Past a certain point, the private sector starts seeing building affordable housing as unprofitable and crank up the prices massively for tiny living spaces, particularly for urban areas, or resort to only building McMansions (which is it's own consoomerism rabbit hole with how kitsch they look).
To add insult to injury to all of this, in Gadafi's Libya housing was instituted as a human right. Everybody, regardless of their social standing had access to their own home. Granted, that was achievable in part due to all the insane oil money the country was sleeping on, but western countries even back in the 2000s were much richer than Libya. So we're getting not only btfo'd by the amish, we're getting btfo'd by a dead African dictator. Calling the state of modern housing a tragedy is an understatement - it's a comedy.
