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Mandel’s Robert Fischer examines JD Vance’s claim about immigrants and housing prices

Do immigrants drive up housing costs? Experts debunk JD Vance claims from vice-presidential debate
cleveland.com (subscription required): Robert Fischer, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society and director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, noted that while immigration can increase housing demand, it is misleading to solely blame it for rising costs, instead emphasizing migration’s broader economic benefits. “Migration is good for the economy,” he said.