Many immigrants live in multi-generational homes and more densely populated areas. While I am not going to say explicitly that immigrants will not contribute to a housing crisis, they actually contribute less than many other factors.

There are a number of solutions we can take to the housing crisis, none of which are immigration reform. First and foremost we need to stop private equity from owning residential property. We need to implement rent control and punish landlords for withholding supply. We need to stop criminalizing the unhoused. We need to build systems of reparation for addicts, and medical support for those struggling with mental illness.

From there, we need robust high quality public, not affordable, housing. Even in means tested areas, affordable housing still prices out many of the most impoverished.

Finally, and this is a dream and likely not a reality in my lifetime, we need to destroy the system in which property ownership is the primary system in which we accumulate generational wealth.

Immigration reform will not even make a dent in the housing crisis, and our current path is resulting in the suffering of other humans.

I'd bet most residential construction workers are immigrants.

I think it would be really cool if we found ways to incentivize building communities in and around old dying manufacturing towns. When people say there is no housing, they just mean anywhere they want to live. Rebuilding communities would rebuild local economies.

I could imagine grants given to towns on conditions about relaxing zoning in areas to allow for more high density structures and less building codes that are meant for single houses, as well as changes for existing structures in certain zones. Also should either create and fund a community liason program for starting small businesses, or wave the majority of financial burdens.