For all the talk about a housing shortage, there’s proportionately little attention paid to how the U.S. government is aggravating the situation by kicking out the workers who want to trade and build homes in America.

Shortages are caused by government regulations that prevent, discourage, or make it too onerous for people to build. With a housing market already strangled by government controls, and a construction industry composed of 30% immigrant labor nationwide and 41% in California (with many workers illegally present), the Trump administration’s “mass deportations” agenda means an aggravated housing shortage.

Construction companies have long struggled to find and retain workers, and Trump’s immigration agenda is making this worse: not only is the administration targetin

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