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VP Vance-Illegal Immigrants Squeeze U.S. Citizens from Home Ownership
Illegal Immigration Worsens Housing Crisis, Vice President J.D. Vance tells Cities' Leaders, Separate Report Claims Stunning Number in U.S.
"Housing is a top financial concern for Americans, according to a May 2024 Gallup poll." That pull quote is from the Daily Signal to this writer for MHProNews and this Patch is on the following headline and subheading topics in Part I. “The reason why we care about border security is because we want your communities to be safer,” Vice President J.D. Vance (R) said. “We want them [your communities] want them to be more affordable." What some in politics, media, and the punditry class are saying is chaos may be better described as a way for the working and middle classes plus retirees (the so-called 99 percent) to obtain a better life in the fastest possible way. Part II will provide additional insights plus other topics.
Part I
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Illegal Immigration Worsens Housing Crisis, Vance Tells Cities’ Leaders
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | March 10, 2025
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Illegal immigration raises demand for housing, which increases costs for American citizens, Vice President JD Vance said Monday.
And when Americans can own houses, they are stakeholders in the nation, which makes them better citizens, he said.
“We want our citizens to feel that investment in their own country, and it’s hard,” he said. “It’s hard to feel that investment if you feel like you can’t even own a slice of it, even if that’s what you want to do.”
Vance addressed a bipartisan audience of local leaders who traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the National League of Cities’ Congressional City Conference this week.
“But when we talk about housing and why costs are so high, we don’t talk enough about demand,” he said. “And one of the drivers of increased housing demand, we know, is that we’ve got a lot of people over the last four years who have come into the country illegally, and that’s something we have to work on if we want to meaningfully reduce the cost of housing, too.”
Housing is a top financial concern for Americans, according to a May 2024 Gallup poll. Some experts worried that because Trump didn’t mention the housing crisis in his joint address to Congress last Tuesday, it is no longer a priority for him, but Vance’s speech sought to put those concerns to rest.
“Now the Trump administration has taken important steps to make building cheaper and to boost the supply of housing,” Vance said. “Of course, it’s going to take time, but this is a Day One issue for our entire team, from the president on down.”
Vance discussed “slashing needless regulations” that stand in the way of building new homes. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner is working to cut Biden administration rules responsible for high costs, the vice president said.
Many of the local leaders in the audience are also responsible for high housing costs, due to allowing illegal immigrants to increase demand for homes, Vance said.
“The reason why we care about border security is because we want your communities to be safer,” he said. “We want them want them to be more affordable. We want there to be less drugs in our country, and we want your citizens to be able to live the American dream. It is the birthright of every single one of our citizens, and we’re going to fight for it every single day.”
He told local leaders that while they can disagree with the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration laws, local municipalities will be expected to help as long as those laws are on the books.
“It will be the policy of the Trump administration to enforce the nation’s laws, and it will be the policy of the Trump administration to say that it is not up to local cities to choose which federal laws that they’re going to enforce,” he said.
“We’ve got to have everybody respecting the law, and that is going to be one of the major policy focuses, of course, of the Trump administration, and it already has been,” he continued.
Vance attempted to unite his audience around helping blue-collar Americans, urban and rural, afford to buy a home and raise their children in a safe area.
“With all respect for policy disagreements, I think that one thing that unites us in this room is that we want to give our blue-collar people in the United States of America a shot at the American dream again,” he said.
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Part II
1) J.D. Vance's full speech to the National League of Cities, per YouTube and Sky News is as shown below.
2) Per right-leaning Breitbart: "Report: 18.6 Million Illegal Aliens Living in U.S., Hundreds of Thousands of Anchor Babies Born Annually." That report said the following, with the hotlink to MHProNews and that report by FAIR added.
"According to the latest analysis from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), about 18.6 million illegal aliens reside in the U.S. today — an 11 percent increase from the 16.8 million estimated to be living in the U.S. as of June 2023."
3) Per FAIR:
As of 2025, American population growth comes almost entirely from unsustainably high levels of immigration, both legal and illegal. [Emphasis added]
4) For newcomers to this "Reality Check" series on this Patch, your write (moi) is a political independent who is the son of immigrants and is married to an immigrant. Properly organized and operated legal immigration is to be celebrated. Illegal immigrantion, by contrast, is illegal for good reasons. Some of those reasons are linked below.
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5) But another post on the topic of the impact of illegal immigration on U.S. housing previously shared by this author is the one linked below.
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From the article linked above are these pull quotes.
On 11.16.2024 an update was recorded on an article entitled "Mass Deportations Could Worsen the US’s Severe Housing Shortage" authored by Alice M. Carter. It is an important topic. However, trust in media is near all-time lows, according to Gallup research. So, it is understandable that a website like theirs may want to buttress their creditability by saying what The Northern Forum does.
...Several of those claims will be respectfully debunked in the fact check and analysis initially published on MHProNews that follows.
Question by MHProNews) When a fact check is fairly and properly done are they useful for public understanding of important topics?
Copilot answer: "Absolutely. When done fairly and properly, fact checks can be incredibly useful for public understanding. They help clarify misinformation, provide context, and ensure that people have access to accurate information. This is especially important in today's world, where misinformation can spread quickly. A well-conducted fact check can cut through the noise and provide a clear, evidence-based perspective on important topics."
This means that if construction companies were to lose their immigrant labor force due to deportations (or preemptive departures), it’s unlikely that native-born workers would transition from other company roles, like sales, to manual labor on construction sites, according to Ortega.
“You can’t just relocate people as you please. That’s not how it works,” Ortega noted.
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“Mass deportations would devastate the construction and housing markets,” Lukens remarked. “It would also severely impact the agricultural sector, cost a fortune, and wreak havoc on the economy. It’s simply unacceptable, both from a human and an economic standpoint,” he concluded."
6) That might be called fear-mongering, ignorance, or perhaps some combination of both from Alice Carter to her readers. How so? Because Carter cited the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), which aptly noted this: "the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), where Dr. Lesli Gooch, the CEO, provided an emailed statement. “MHI is not concerned about President-elect Trump’s intention to uphold the nation’s immigration laws. Our factories and workers adhere to these laws, and we look forward to playing a key role in tackling the national housing shortage,” Gooch stated."
7) By contrast, the NAHB was cited saying this.
"The National Association of Home Builders was another organization willing to comment. “Any large-scale deportation is bound to affect the economy. I believe the construction and housing sectors will experience disproportionately large impacts compared to other industries,” said Ken Wingert, the chief advocacy officer."
8) While there is more on the above linked here, it should beg the question. Why should the manufactured housing industry linked factory-builders be less concerned about deportations of illegals than conventional site builders? Let's look at just one common sense point.
9) Factory-builders, including those in manufactured housing or manufactured home production (sometimes errantly called mobile homes, as federal law upgraded the mobile homes and trailer houses of the past into HUD Code manufactured housing starting on June 15, 1976errantly called mobile homes, as federal law upgraded the mobile homes and trailer houses of the past into HUD Code manufactured housing starting on June 15, 1976) can rapidly train people to work side-by-side with others who are already trained to work in their production centers.
An engineer, Skip VanZant who has knowledge of both conventional housing construction and manufactured homes, was interviewed to explain some of the benefits of building an "engineered" home in a production center. The video includes views of Sunshine Homes production center in Red Bay, AL that is a member of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR).
Integrating new people in a factory is arguably faster and quicker than is possible for conventional builders, per a range of sources. To illustrate the reality of that point, see the Q&A with AI powered Copilot shown below.
10) Curiously, even though President Trump has visited manufactured home communities and spoken and acted favorably toward manufactured or other kinds of factory-built housing, VP J.D. Vance has not been known to mention the topic since he became Trump's running mate.
Which begs the question. Why has VP J.D. Vance (R) not mentioned or addressed manufactured housing yet, when it is so obviously necessary in order to solve the affordable housing crisis?
There is always more to know. See the linked similar and different topics that follow. Thanks so much for dropping into this installment of the "Reality Check" series on this Patch. Oh! Almost forgot. The first article below may look a bit similar to this one, but is different than this article. More specifically, articles found on Manufactured Home Pro News (MHProNews), on Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews) and this Patch may look similar but each are unique. There may be some overlap, but usually there are more differences. To see for yourself, check it out.
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UPDATE: 1:19 PM ET. Screen capture of the final paragraphs of a follow up with Grok about this article above.L. A. “Tony” Kovach is a publisher who has earned multiple awards in history. He and his family live in a manufactured home on private property in Winter Haven, FL. He is the co-founder of Manufactured Home Living News.com (MHLivingNews.com) and Manufactured Home Pro News.com (MHProNews.com), trade publications serving segments of the manufactured home industry. Having worked in several segments of the manufactured home industry for over 3 decades, Kovach is a widely acknowledged and often praised expert on manufactured housing. ###
