Homeless Problem Won’t Be Solved With More Construction

Housing costs have become a major problem. Average people are increasingly priced out of the market for houses. Renting has also become more expensive in many cities.

Donald Trump claims that deporting millions of undocumented aliens would reduce the housing shortage. But images of hapless families packed into cattle cars look more like Stalinist Russia than the America I want to live in.

Also, deportation might backfire. Many undocumented people work in the construction industry and deporting them could decrease the housing supply, driving up prices still more.