Im at a bit of an impasse with my libtard friend. We've been arguing for months about whether or not immigration is making housing affordability worse, when it really should have been a 15 second discussion. Half a million more people in a year and only 50k new houses? Yep thats math. Brown bodies may be sacred, dirt may be magic, but numbers dont lie unless they're dirty white people "per capita" numbers, sorry sweaty 💅

Anyway, we've come to the point where he agrees immigration is a contributing factor, he agrees its not making the situation better (i had to drag him kicking and screaming across that line), but he still maintains with absolute certainty that its a totally overblown right wing talking point to say that immigration is the reason young people cant afford houses.

Thus far, he has made the following arguments at some point:
>immigration is a distraction planted in the media by the rich
>if we didnt have immigration the economy would crash and housing prices would get worse ("line go up" is his favourite snark meme but apparantly he has conniptions at the thought of line going down)
>if we didnt have immigration we wouldnt have all this great ethnic food (he employed this as a non sequitur when i asked who benefits more from immigration, the rich or the poor)
>billionaires buying family homes and sitting on them is causing the crisis
>AirBNB is causing the crisis
>tax policy which favours the rich is causing the crisis
>construction costs are causing the crisis because rich people are charging too much for material
>the government should provide housing for everyone who needs it
>the government is incompetent at providing housing for everyone who needs it, so we should vote for the same people who are failing to provide government housing so they can provide government housing
>the rich don't benefit from inflated housing prices being propped up by immigration (but the economy needs it to survive?)
>the rich do benefit from inflated housing prices being propped up by other rich people

Its almost as if crying about housing affordability isnt really the sincere concern here, its just an attack vector that instagram communists are using to proliferate their stale ideology among people who want to project an appearance of being A GOOD FUCKING PERSON.