Is it working?

[Mik]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/falling-rents-rising-wages-perhaps-stopping-immigration-works/ar-AA1RP9yA

[LuFins Dad]

Funny how that isn’t being shared by other media…

[Mik]

Well, it’s opinion so not sure how entirely accurate it is.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Is it working?:

Well, it’s opinion so not sure how entirely accurate it is.

Rental prices are down:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/apartment-rents-vacancies-november.html

and wages are up:
https://usafacts.org/answers/are-wages-keeping-up-with-inflation/country/united-states/

Particularly at lower earning levels. Those aren’t opinions, those are facts. Now, we can debate the causes, there’s plenty of room for opinion, there, but Immigration is certainly a part of it.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Is it working?:

@Mik said in Is it working?:

Well, it’s opinion so not sure how entirely accurate it is.

Rental prices are down:

Since August of 2022 nationally. City rents still rising.

and wages are up:

Since July of 2020.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Is it working?:

@LuFins-Dad said in Is it working?:

@Mik said in Is it working?:

Well, it’s opinion so not sure how entirely accurate it is.

Rental prices are down:

Since August of 2022 nationally. City rents still rising.

and wages are up:

Since July of 2020.

Look closer at the links. Except for NY, most metropolitan areas are down. And while wages were up, they were well below inflation until this year.