shut in the nuthouse

The cover-up is just such a sad, sloppy indictment on how unserious media and unserious MAGA voters are poison for America.

Now hold on a minute there, Fox News! Let's not ignore a key detail of this study: "The paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, combines immigration court records with government administrative data to measure how the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration between 2021 and 2024 affected local labor and housing markets." So a 2.2% increase in home prices attributed to immigration over a three year period = a .73% annual increase. Likewise, a 1.4% increase in rent prices over the same three years = a .46% annual increase. The numbers were paltry and insignificant to begin with, but when you recalculate for the annual effect, they are probably more likely due to the statistical margin of error than anything else. Which would mean that immigration does not impact on home or rent pricing. Meanwhile over at Harvard University, a recent study of the same issue found the opposite - that the uptick in immigration to the U.S. in the same time period "does not lineup with the substantial increase in home prices and rents of recent years." So how to explain the increase in housing costs? -a historically large millennial generation reaching prime homebuying age in this period -pent-up demand for housing after the dampening effect of the 2009 recession -the increased demand for homes with more space as more and more people have been working from home -historically low mortgage interest rates vs. the constrained housing supply Funny how the study Fox News reported on missed all that huh? Also funny how Fox News didn't report on the Harvard University study, isn't it?

By MAGA logic, Mamdani is patriotic.