Insights from the The Daily episode “Trump’s Clashing Goals: More Housing, Fewer Immigrants”, published July 22, 2026.
The US housing crisis is fundamentally a labor shortage, not just a supply issue. Decades of union erosion and the shift to non-union labor created a reliance on immigrant workers that the current administration's deportation policies are now dismantling. Without a strategy to rebuild the domestic labor pipeline, these policies will only increase construction timelines and costs.
Topics: housing policy, labor economics, immigration, construction industry, unions