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

  • Written by 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 housingAn 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...

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