In a rare moment of honesty, the New York Times acknowledged this week that mass immigration causes housing prices to soar—a reality Americans have long known but the media has often denied. The admission came in a report covering protests in Mexico City, where locals are rebelling against rising rents and cultural disruption caused by a surge of foreign residents.
The Times article, titled “As a Tourist Influx Makes Prices Soar, Hundreds Protest in Mexico City,” documented how residents have begun protesting and defacing property, fed up with “digital nomads” and Western migrants pricing them out of their own neighborhoods. The paper bluntly admitted the cause: “The outrage reflects the growing difficulty of affording a city that has become a hot spot for Western immigrants,” adding that rents have skyrocketed and old neighborhoods are being transformed beyond recognition.
Similar acknowledgments have emerged over the past few years. In 2022, the Times reported on how mass immigration to Canada had made housing unaffordable, a point echoed by the Wall Street Journal. By 2023, Axios confirmed that President Joe Biden’s open-borders agenda was worsening the U.S. housing crisis, as cities ran out of shelter space and affordable housing.
Even New York Magazine and the libertarian Cato Institute conceded that mass immigration drives housing prices higher. Cato researchers wrote that “increased demand from immigrants will increase housing prices,” noting that immigrants, like everyone else, need homes.
Testimony to Congress from Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies, reinforced the data. A five-percentage-point rise in a metro area’s immigrant population was linked to a 12% increase in rent for native-born Americans relative to income. The Census Bureau backed up the finding, showing that rent increases in 2023 were the highest in over a decade.
As the Biden administration continues pushing mass immigration, the economic toll on American families grows—especially in housing. The acknowledgment by left-leaning outlets like the New York Times underscores a fundamental truth: unlimited immigration imposes real costs on working-class citizens.
