It may be surprising to some that both Joe Biden (D) and Kamala Harris (D) have both recently said that Kamala has been part of every major decision in the Biden-Harris era. A co-host on left-leaning ABC’s show “The View” asked (see below) “If anything, would have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” Kamala: “Nothing comes to mind. I’ve been apart of most of the decisions…” So, be it the higher costs Americans are experiencing due to inflation, the lack of affordable housing, continuing stunning discoveries on the border and immigration, international or domestic issues, Kamala and Biden are essentially one and the same. While Biden obviously dropped out, reportedly under severe pressure, the implication of these remarks is that Kamala Harris (D) is by implication ‘the incumbent.’ With that backdrop, consider the math and analysis from Robert Romano, the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government Foundation (ALG).
Joe admits Kamala has been involved in all decisions during their administrations tenure.
This is all on Kamala too. pic.twitter.com/yPF1w1h2bd
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) October 4, 2024
BREAKING: Kamala says she wouldn’t change anything from Biden, confirms she has been part of most Admin decisions pic.twitter.com/BMCegX6mSv
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 8, 2024
Part I From the Daily Torch to MHProNews is the following.
J.D. Vance is right, unbridled immigration of 8 million since 2021 is causing housing prices to skyrocket. It’s math.
“We don’t want to blame immigrants for higher housing prices. But we do want to blame Kamala Harris for letting in millions of illegal aliens into this country… which does drive up costs, Tim. Twenty-five million illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most significant drivers of home prices in the country. It’s why we have massive increases in home prices that have happened right alongside massive increases in illegal alien, alien populations under Kamala Harris’s leadership.”
That was Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance at his Oct. 1 debate against Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, outlining that allowing 8.3 million border crossings since 2021 reported by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, most of whom tend to stay, thus requiring housing, increases demand and thus prices for existing homes.
For example, in Fiscal Year 2024, of the 2.75 million southwest border encounters, 1.4 million were Title 8 apprehensions, of which only about 309,000 were subjected to expedited removal, about 109,000 were detained pending proceedings and another 139,000 voluntarily returned, with almost all of the rest given a voluntary “notice to appear” for later immigration proceedings. The rest were just caught and released. In other words, about 2.2 million stayed. Where?
In the nation’s increasingly scarce housing. Now, do that every year, and you wind up with millions more demanding housing, and if production does not keep up—it hasn’t—and prices have only one place to go, up. At the debate, Vance noted “there’s a Federal Reserve study that we’re happy to share after the debate. We’ll put it up on social media. Actually, that really drills down on the connection between increased levels of migration, especially illegal immigration, and higher housing prices.”
True to his word, on Oct. 2, Vance posted on X a speech by Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman from May 3 at the Massachusetts Bankers Association Annual Convention in Key Biscayne, Fla., when she stated, “there is a risk that strong consumer demand for services, increased immigration, and continued labor market tightness could lead to persistently high core services inflation. Given the current low inventory of affordable housing, the inflow of new immigrants to some geographic areas could result in upward pressure on rents, as additional housing supply may take time to materialize.”
Since 2020, the U.S. population has increased by almost 5.7 million to 337 million on a net basis once births, deaths and immigration are factored in, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That means illegal immigration of 8.3 million reported by the Border Patrol — again, most of them stay — more than accounts for the entire overall increase of the population.
Even still, from 2021 to 2024, there have been about 5.8 million housing starts for private homes, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s enough homes for every person, let alone every household — the average size of American households is 2 when households are divided by population level.
So, construction has more than kept up with the growth of the population, although there are regional incongruities. One-third of illegal immigrants live in California and Texas alone, with Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois included accounts for more than half of the inflow, according to Pew Research.
And according to Zillow, about half of the worst housing shortages are in Californian cities alone, while the biggest increases in housing supply were occurring in Austin, Seattle, Orlando, Jacksonville, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Raleigh, Nashville, and Phoenix. Texas builds more homes, and so prices there are less than California.
Overall, since the end of 2020, the U.S. Freddie Mac Home Price Index has increased 37.2 percent. The all transactions house price index by Federal Housing Finance Agency says they’re up 44 percent. And housing in the consumer price index is up 22.7 percent, and overall shelter prices are up 22.8 percent.
It is in that context that Kamala Harris is proposing to build an additional 3 million homes over the next four years, in addition to the current 1.3 million a year already being constructed. Or we could just deport the illegal immigrants, as proposed by former President Donald Trump, and then there is no shortage.
Also, and this is sad to think about, but as Baby Boomers age and pass away — there are 60 million Americans 65 years old and older — the number of available housing units will grow dramatically over the next 15 years. The same thing is happening in Japan, where once there were housing shortages, but because of the aging population, there are surpluses as prices collapse.
Meaning, just as soon as we get done building a bunch of new homes to accommodate all of the immigration, we could see home prices contract as happened in 2007 through 2011. At best, there are temporary shortages that could be almost entirely mitigated by restricting migration. Senator Vance was right. ##
Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government Foundation. ###
Part II – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Focused Commentary
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So can yall now accept that VP Kamala Harris had a hand in the policies that passed during the Biden administration or are y’all still going to say she didn’t have as much power because she was Vice President?
She’s literally admitting that she did.pic.twitter.com/fq5Ym17Mlh
— Charrise Lane (@CharriseJLane) October 8, 2024
There you go she admits she’s been part of the Biden administration and has nothing she would’ve done differently. Good job, Kamala time to step aside and let Donald Trump and the real patriots come in and fix America pic.twitter.com/Ur3Vg6s250
— USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 (@Arkypatriot) October 8, 2024
2) Rob Romano’s analysis supports years of reports found on MHProNews on the obvious cause-effect implications of millions of aliens coming illegally into the U.S. There is a legal immigration process. While it is on Kamala and Biden (D) that the border has been porous in the past 3.5 years, and that it was under Bush-Cheney (R) and Obama-Biden (D), it is apparent that the only president in the 21st century to serious attempt to address the border crisis has been 45th President of the United States (POTUS) Donald J. Trump.
Trump in Butler, PA:
“So, as I was saying.” 🔥🔥
Continuing at same place where he was shot at…..
This is called “Leadership”pic.twitter.com/eFtRVJAmVe
— BhikuMhatre (@MumbaichaDon) October 5, 2024
INSANE, look at all these Trump supporters packed into the Pennsylvania field where President Trump was shot in July. Butler, PA pic.twitter.com/TWvus0AzRR
— Ben Deeter (@benpdeeter) October 5, 2024
3) Joe Biden admitted at a recent event that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was misnamed.
“we…we shoulda named it what it was.”
Biden admits the Inflation Reduction Act was just a vessel for climate agenda funding. pic.twitter.com/HNQjZEV9sP
— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) September 5, 2024
It’s nice of Joe Biden to admit here that the “Inflation Reduction Act” was a complete lie — it was actually a massive climate change spending bill
So he made inflation worse by spending hundreds of billions to have zero impact whatsoever on the climate
pic.twitter.com/2E5WD8cQ32— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) September 5, 2024
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