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mahatmakanejeeves

(71,806 posts) Tue Jul 7, 2026, 10:03 PM Yesterday

Did immigration drive up housing prices? Trump touts a draft Fed paper.

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It’s axiomatic that whenever a newspaper article has the headline “is such and such so?” the answer is “no.”

The Washington Post
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President Trump and his advisers are promoting a draft Federal Reserve paper as proof of a claim he has pressed for years: that a surge of illegal immigration under President Biden made American housing less affordable.

Here's what to know:

Did immigration drive up housing prices? Trump touts a draft Fed paper.
The president is citing a Fed working paper to blame Biden-era illegal immigration for housing costs. Here's what the study actually found.
www.washingtonpost.com
9:00 PM · Jul 7, 2026

President Trump and his advisers are promoting a draft Federal Reserve paper as proof of a claim he has pressed for years: that a surge of illegal immigration under President Biden made American housing less affordable.

Here's what to know:
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-07-08T01:00:06.42144818Z

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Did immigration drive up housing prices? Trump touts a draft Fed paper. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP

It's a little rough going as I didn't take statistics somsai 23 hrs ago #1

somsai

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1. It's a little rough going as I didn't take statistics

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jul 7, 2026, 10:29 PM

23 hrs ago

but they are saying they could find 30% of the cost of purchase and 20% of rentals but I didn't read that part as carefully as incomes which they say didn't move much. Here's the link.
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/papers/2026/wp2607
It's from the Dallas Fed.

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