In interviews with Fox News and Fox Business, Secretary Scott Turner recently laid out findings from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) annual report to Congress.
It heavily focuses on the negative relationship between mass migration and housing affordability, and it highlights how illegal immigration and the rapid increase in the nation's foreign-born population under Joe Biden's leadership placed increased strain on the housing market.
Ira Mehlman says the report and Sec. Turner's comments closely align with a recent analysis conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that reveals a housing shortfall of 4.7 million units, which is made far more severe by sustained high levels of immigration.
"There's the immutable law of supply and demand," Mehlman notes. "If you are going to bring in people in record numbers the way the Biden administration did … you have an increasing number of people trying to find a place to live with a very limited supply of housing available. Inevitably, that results in the prices going up."
He commends the Trump administration for its policies that have led to the first decline in the foreign-born population in over 50 years but says additional and immediate steps are needed to further cut mass migration.
"The first thing you have to do is stop making the problem worse, and that has largely been accomplished," says Mehlman. "Virtually nobody's coming into the country illegally anymore. Now they are endeavoring to remove people who don't belong here, so it is making an impact."
The FAIR spokesman adds that things are already better, "but it's hard to undo the kind of damage that was done under the Biden administration."
