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How does deporting the poorest members of your community decrease the house prices? What logic is that?
They believe that the existence of brown folk lowers property value
If that's their belief, why get rid of them if the aim is to reduce house prices
Reactionaries don't need a reason, they need an excuse. Never believe their talking points, it's all just dog whistles.
They don't want cheaper housing, they want their own value to go up, preferably at the expense of people they hate
Is that not true? Take 3 neighborhoods; one white, one black and one Hispanic. In which hood do you think the property values are higher?
Sorry if that's an uncomfortable fact, but it's a perfect example of systemic racism.
In cities perhaps but, not to disprove your point as it's valid, rural America is a major player in right wing support and I dbout the existence of brown folks changes the value of those areas much. its not so cut and dry all over
Well you see if people are forced out of their homes that home goes back under possession of the bank and banks really hate holding onto free money like that so the more houses the banks are holding onto the less money they will want for them because banks operate on the people first principle and want to ensure occupancy of their units over profits they could make.
It makes perfect sense. You just have to understand how banks operate and you'd know that once a bank gets a house from a deported family they lower the price to fill it with tenants as cheap as possible! Simple as. Any other questions librul? lmao
Less bodies taking up housing -> cheaper housing. Though lord knows how many people a city would have to get rid of to truly move the needle. OTOH, there were a couple of million immigrants a year pouring in. That's a shitload of infrastructure.
Always used this to get a handle on the numbers:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
Notice they're reporting ZERO since February? The administration order them to fake that? That's a story in itself!