Battleground states face disproportionately unaffordable housing prices. analysis carried out by washington post It's clear that it's crushing middle-class Americans.
Analysis shows that since former President Donald Trump took office in 2019, unsustainable housing and rent burdens have become increasingly burdensome for Americans living in battleground states such as North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. It turns out.
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Americans in battleground states are much more likely to live in areas where home prices have increased disproportionately since 2019.According to a Washington Post analysis of home price data. Nationwide, home prices have increased 48% since 2019. Prices have more than doubled in some counties in seven of the most competitive battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.an analysis of Zillow data shows. [Emphasis added]
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“This is no longer just an issue for large coastal cities,” said Dennis Shea, executive director of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Housing Policy Center, a bipartisan policy center. “Housing affordability is bad everywhere, and home prices have increased dramatically in all seven battleground states since 2019.” [Emphasis added]
Specifically, nearly 9 out of 10 counties in North Carolina have seen home price growth rates exceed the national average since 2019, 80 percent of Arizona counties, nearly 80 percent of Georgia counties, and Wisconsin counties. Approximately 45 counties, or almost half of all counties, are seeing increases in home prices. percent of Michigan's counties, about a quarter of Pennsylvania's counties, and more than 10 percent of Nevada's counties.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has repeatedly pointed to record levels of unchecked mass immigration into the United States as one factor.
“…Under the leadership of Kamala Harris, we've accommodated millions of people who have no right to be here. That's a big factor in the cost of housing,” Vance said at a recent Michigan State House speech. spoke at the gathering.
If you're going to have 25 million people come to this country, think about it, you've got to house them somewhere. …If we do that, American families will be going to people who have no right to be here in the first place.
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While housing supply is low, demand has increased dramatically as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris oversaw a historic boom in the nation's foreign-born population. As of March of this year, the Biden-Harris administration has admitted approximately 7 million immigrants to the United States since January 2021.
The foreign-born population now stands at 51.6 million, the highest in American history. In other words, approximately 3 out of 19 people living in the United States were born abroad.
At the current pace, the foreign-born population will reach more than 82 million people by 2040, meaning nearly one in four people living in the United States will be born abroad.
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