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Rahim Kurwa, Associate professor of Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago

The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing

An aerial view of a housing development Las Vegas, Nev., on Aug. 8, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The U.S. housing market has been ensnared in a growing affordability crisis for decades.

The problem has gotten dramatically worse in recent years. Since 2019, home prices are up 60% nationwide. A record-high 22 million renters are “cost-burdened” – spending more than 30% of their income on housing.

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