Illegal immigration raises demand for housing, which increases costs for American citizens, Vice President JD Vance said Monday.
And when Americans can own houses, they are stakeholders in the nation, which makes them better citizens, he said.
“We want our citizens to feel that investment in their own country, and it’s hard,” he said. “It’s hard to feel that investment if you feel like you can’t even own a slice of it, even if that’s what you want to do.”
Vance addressed a bipartisan audience of local leaders who traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the National League of Cities’ Congressional City Conference this week.
“But when we talk about housing and why costs are so high, we don’t talk enough about demand,” he said. “And one of the drivers of increased housing demand, we know, is that we’ve got a lot of people over the last four…
