December 12, 2025 • 18 mins
1. Welfare Usage Among Somali Refugees
- Based on Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS):
- 81% of Somali-headed households in Minnesota use one or more forms of welfare.
- Breakdown:
- 27% on cash welfare
- 54% on food stamps
- 73% on Medicaid
- For households with children, the numbers are even higher:
- 89% on welfare
- 86% on Medicaid
- 62% on food stamps
- 23% on cash welfare
- Comparison: Native-born Minnesotans have much lower rates (e.g., 21% on any welfare, 6% on cash welfare).
- Additional disparities:
- 66% of Somali refugees live in or near poverty vs. 20% of native-born Minnesotans.
- Language barrier: ~60% of Somali refugees speak English poorly.
- Education gap: ~40% lack a high school diploma.
2. Broader Immigration and Housing Impact
- Includes remarks from HUD Secretary Scott Turner linking illegal immigration to housing affordability issues.
- Claims:
- 12+ million illegal immigrants have strained housing supply.
- 59% of illegal immigrant families use welfare, costing $42 billion annually.
- Immigrants account for 100% of rental growth and over half of owner-occupied housing growth in states like California and New York.
- HUD report warns that unchecked immigration could price Americans out of housing markets.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One of the things I talk at China about is
the nuclearization of weapons that we'd like to see if
we could step that. I've spoken to China about that,
I've spoken to Russia about that, and I think it
would be something that we would want to do and
they would like to do, and I think Russia would.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Like Today said they don't want you to start for
the follow.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, that's what I tell you, But you know what
they tell you is different than what.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You're listening to. The forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Good Friday morning. It's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
two big stories for you. First up, shocking news coming
out of Minnesota as nearly every Somali household with children
is on welfare, meaning you are paying for their lives.
How much is it costing you. I'll explain that in
just a moment, and it's not just Somalia. Plus, in
(00:53):
another shocking story, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott
Turner is now blaming checked illegal immigration for the pricing
out of families American families amid the new housing report
that is showing now countless numbers of apartments and rental
properties are being rented by illegal immigrants, making home ownership
(01:17):
almost unaffordable for many Americans. But first, I want to
tell you about an amazing opportunity right now that I'm
involved in and I cannot wait for you to take
advantage of it. I want you to take some incredible
courses at Hillsdale College for free. You may not know this,
but Hillsdale College has been influencing conservatives like myself for decades.
(01:42):
They had a huge impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and
even as memorial service, they talked about how Charlie took
class after class after class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College
is now offering for you, the listeners of this show,
more than forty free I want to say that again,
free online courses. That's right, more than forty free online courses.
(02:06):
You can learn about the works of C. S. Lewis,
the stories in the Book of Genesis, the meaning of
the US Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic,
or the history of the ancient Christian Church, all with
Hillsdale College's free online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking
the Constitution one oh one in this course. You're going
(02:28):
to exploit the design and the purpose of the Constitution,
the challenges it faced during the Civil War, and how
it has been undermined for more than a century by
radical progressives and liberals. This twelve lecture course is self pace.
It's another reason why I love it. So start whenever
and wherever in our country. We need more Americans like
(02:51):
you and I than understand the Constitution and can defend
the freedom of the American people against the left and
their increasing encroachments on are God given rights. So start
your classes today for free. Start your free Constitution one
oh one course right now. How do you do it?
Go to Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll
(03:16):
and it's no cost. It's easy to get started. You
got to use a special website Hillsdale dot edu slash
Morning Update. Enroll for free Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
There has been a lot in the news about the
Somali population defrauding taxpayers at record rates, costing you millions
and millions and millions and millions of taxpayers dollars in Minnesota. Well,
I wish I could tell you it's gotten better, but
it isn't at all. It's actually gotten even worse. In
(03:55):
what we're finding out about how much money the Somali
community is take from all of us. How bad is it?
Nearly every Somali household with children is on welfare. That's right.
New data is showing that more than eight in ten
(04:15):
households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota
are on one or more forms of American taxpayer funded welfare.
This new data, published by the Center for Immigration Studies
is revealing this shocking news. Now. The data is actually
based on ten years a decade of data from the
(04:38):
Census Bureau's American Community Survey, known as the ACS, and
it shows drastic disparities between native born American households and
Somali born households in Minnesota, where nearly eighty thousand residents
have Somali ancestry compared to zero who had Somali ancestry
(04:59):
in Nai nineteen ninety. In particular, the data shows that
eighty one percent of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees
are on one or more form of welfare, including twenty
seven percent who are on cash welfare, fifty four percent
(05:20):
who are on food stamps, and seventy three percent who
are on medicaid. Now, many are on multiple forms of
government aid welfare. Now you compare this massive welfare to
Native born Americans residing in Minnesota, the numbers are completely
(05:41):
and staggeringly different, only twenty one percent of whom are
on one or more form of welfare. When it comes
to American Native born, including just six percent who are
on cash welfare, seven percent who are on food stamps,
teen percent who are on medicaid. Now, let me just
(06:02):
go back through these numbers and compare them. Of Native
born Americans residing Minnesota, just six percent are on cash welfare,
Somali refugees in Minnesota twenty seven percent on cash welfare,
and just seven percent of Native born Americans residing Minnesota
are on food stamps. Again, I go back and really
(06:24):
think about these numbers in your head. Of the Somali
refugees in Minnesota, fifty four percent of them are on
food stamps. And if you look at medicaid, of Native
born Americans residing Minnesota, eighteen percent are on Medicaid. Seventy
three percent of Somali refugees are on medicaid. That is
(06:46):
an insane number, a number that should scare everyone because
it's unsustainable. Now, welfare use goes even higher, by the way,
for Somali households with children that are in the home,
the ACS data find. So that was just in general numbers, right,
like a grown woman or a grown man. Now if
(07:08):
you look at households with a child in it, the
numbers skyrocket even more. Eighty nine percent of Somali headed
households with children in Minnesota are on one or more
forms of welfare. Eighty six percent of these households with
children that are Somali headed eighty six percent on medicaid,
(07:32):
and this number is the most damming. About sixty two
percent of Somali households with children in the state are
on food stamps and twenty three percent take cash welfare. Now,
most of these families are on at least two forms
of government aid, some have three even four. Quote nearly
(07:52):
every Somali household with children receive some form of welfare.
That is what the CIS researcher Jason which Wine said
in this report. The gap between Somali households with children
on welfare and Native born Americans that with children on
welfare is wide. Only about three and ten Minnesota households
(08:13):
with children take one or more forms of welfare, all right,
So thirty percent only six percent on cash welfare if
you're a Native born, ten percent in Minnesota Native born
on food stamps, and twenty eight percent on medicaid. Eighty
nine percent of Somali headed households with children Minnesota are
on one or more forms of welfare. This goes back
(08:36):
to what President Donald Trump talked about a couple of
days ago. Why on earth would we continue to bring
people into this country that we are having to take
care of indefinitely, that are costing us countless dollars when
we have plenty of Americans that need help. First, we
(08:57):
have countless felling schools, we have living in poverty. We
still have a homeless crisis where our men and women
that fought to protect and serve this country. So why
would we bring in Somali's where we know that eighty
nine percent of them, if they have children, we're going
to have to pay for their life. Where eighty six
percent of them are going to be on medicaid, Where
(09:19):
sixty two percent of them are on food stamps and
where twenty three percent takes cash, welfare and maybe even more.
These numbers aren't even close to the native born numbers. Now, disparities,
by the way, between Native born Americans and Somali refugees
in Minnesota goes deeper than welfare use. The data also
(09:39):
shows Somali refugees that are in or near poverty in
Minnesota surpasses sixty six percent, while fewer than two and
ten Native born Minnesotas live in or near the poverty line.
So almost seven out of every ten Somali refugees are
living in near the poverty line. That number is crazy.
(10:03):
But let's talk about are they at least trying to
become Americans? Are they trying to assimilate? Are they trying
to become a part of this country? The refugees that
have come over from Somalia. All right, here's some more
data for you. Just zero point seven percent of Native
born Americans in Minnesota speak English less than very well.
(10:26):
Almost sixty percent of Smali refugees say they don't speak
any English very well, including nearly half of Somali refugees
who have lived in Minnesota for more than a decade.
Samali refugees in Minnesota also tend to be vastly less
educated than their Minnesota and counterparts. Well, only five percent
of dative born Americans in Minnesota do not have a
(10:47):
high school diploma, so it's actually a very educated state.
Almost forty percent of small refugees say the same, including
more than twenty eight percent who have lived in Minnesota
for more than a decade, and they still don't have
the education they need to succeed at a high level.
You put all that together, this is a recipe for disaster.
We know it, and we have the data to prove it.
(11:10):
So why on earth are we still having these programs?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Which is the.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Question that the President of the United States of America
has been asking, and it's one that every American should
want or demand an answer from it. Now, all the
data I just gave you, I really hope you'll take
it and you'll share it. I hope you take the podcast,
share it wherever you can on social media, because this
(11:37):
is the exact type of data that needs to get
out there now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Story number two.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It brings me to another story that I also want
to bring up, and it's about exactly what is happening
with immigration in general. There's other shocking news that has
come out from the HUD secretary, warning that illegal immigration
is pushing home prices than you can imagine in new
(12:02):
comments that have come out as the agency has released
a damning report on the housing market strain. And if
you are an American that wants to own a home,
it's harder now than it's been in my lifetime. There
is a lack of affordability and home prices have gotten
incredibly high, making those forty and under in essence, renters,
(12:25):
not home owners. The Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott
Turner slammed the Biden administration for what he called an
illegal immigration and refugee crisis that has rattled the housing market,
particularly for low income renters. There is more shocking details
that he explained on Fox News Channel, and I want
(12:49):
you to hear what he had to say to Kaylee Mcananny.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I'm joined now by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner.
Secretary Turner, you know, it was interesting I was watching
some of your interviews this week and you actually linked
a legal immigration to part of the reason we have
a housing crisis.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well, good morning, Kley it's always great to be with you.
And yes, during the Biden administration, the immigration policies crippled
our nation over twelve million illegal immigrants. So illegal aliens
came across our border, really stifling our housing affordability and
supply issue in our country. And when you have this
many illegal aliens coming over taking homes that are supposed
(13:26):
to be for the American people, affordability is are automatically
going to go up. Kayley, here's an interesting stat for you.
Fifty nine percent of illegal alien families use one or
more welfare programs in America, costing US about forty two
billion dollars a year. And so we have to get
the immigration policy in order, which President Trump has done
(13:48):
and others in the administration. But yes, illegal immigration has
definitely stifled housing affordability and supply.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
One of the things that I think is really fantastic
about the Trump administration is you're always coming up with
new ideas, whether it be tariff dividends, the healthcare payments,
and in your case you're in housing, We've heard about
this idea of a portable mortgage, perhaps a fifty year mortgage,
and that we could debate the efficacy of all these ideas,
but you're coming up with solutions. Tell us about some
of those conversations. Do you all get in a room
(14:16):
and just plan and think, how can we help the
American people? Here's some new ideas.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes, Calyn, you know all too well, having us served
so faithfully in the first administration that President Trump not
only as a strategist, but he executes on ideas. And
so right now there's many ideas, a myriad of ideas
on the table as it pertains a housing affordability and
helping first time home buyers in America. I hear it,
(14:41):
You hear it, gen Z, Millennials and others, and how
we're going to be able to afford a home. And
so not only do we understand it, but you have
people leadership in this country getting together, getting stakeholders together,
industry experts to see what is the best feasible and
appropriate path that we can take to open up a
build and in our country. And I will say, in
(15:01):
addition to that, Kayley, the regulatory environment is burden some
in our country, and so at HUD we've taken down
burdened some regulations affirmatively further in fair housing, which made
HUD and National Zoning Board, restoring local control back to
the cities, back to the states, back to the localities.
And we're encouraging every locality take inventory of your regulatory
(15:24):
environment to see how you can unleash building and development
in USA community. And so these ideas taking down the
regulatory environment, public private partnerships are all part of the plan.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I go back to one of the things that Turner
said there the quote unchecked legal immigration and open borders
policies allowed by the Biden administration continue to put significant
strengd on housing pricing out American families. These policies that
plagued Americans housing market. But in Trump's presidency, Americans finally
(15:58):
have a leader fighting to restore the Senate for American
immigration policy. You look at this report and Hudd's twenty
twenty five report also found that increased immigration has driven
up the price you're paying for a house and that
unrestricted nature of the influx has both strained the housing market.
(16:22):
And this is from the report Priced Out Many American Families.
Report found that an estimated fifteen million illegal immigrants constant
thirty percent of all foreign born residents now. Turner also
added that Hudd took away federal housing Authority back mortgages
(16:43):
from illegal immigrants offered during the Biden administration, saying the
former president turned a blind eye of the issue. So
you were literally like our government was giving out the
loans and backing the loans of illegal immigrants. Now in California,
right sanctuary state. New York a sanctuary state as well, immigrants,
(17:04):
they now say this report of accountant for one hundred
percent of all rental growth and over one half of
all growth in owner occupied housing in recent years. So
if you're trying to find affordable housing in California or
New York as a state, good luck, because immigrants have
accounting for one hundred percent of all rental growth and
(17:25):
over one half of all growth in the owner occupied
housing in recent years. Nationally, there's also a major concern
the foreign born population now accounts for more than sixty
percent of the growth in rental demand. Nationwide, the foreign
born population accounted for two thirds of renal demand growth.
(17:48):
Hudds report also says that if we don't stop this,
they're going to have Americans that literally cannot afford to
live in America, is what the synopsis is. Because there
is such a competitive marketplace for renal properties, and you
can't afford to buy a home, so what is your option.
(18:08):
That's something that every American should be thinking about, and
it's exactly why, by the way, the President of the
United States America is taking this subject on saying we
have to stop it now.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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and we will see you back here tomorrow.
One of the things I talk at China about is
the nuclearization of weapons that we'd like to see if
we could step that. I've spoken to China about that,
I've spoken to Russia about that, and I think it
would be something that we would want to do and
they would like to do, and I think Russia would.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Like Today said they don't want you to start for
the follow.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, that's what I tell you, But you know what
they tell you is different than what.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You're listening to. The forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Good Friday morning. It's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
two big stories for you. First up, shocking news coming
out of Minnesota as nearly every Somali household with children
is on welfare, meaning you are paying for their lives.
How much is it costing you. I'll explain that in
just a moment, and it's not just Somalia. Plus, in
(00:53):
another shocking story, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott
Turner is now blaming checked illegal immigration for the pricing
out of families American families amid the new housing report
that is showing now countless numbers of apartments and rental
properties are being rented by illegal immigrants, making home ownership
(01:17):
almost unaffordable for many Americans. But first, I want to
tell you about an amazing opportunity right now that I'm
involved in and I cannot wait for you to take
advantage of it. I want you to take some incredible
courses at Hillsdale College for free. You may not know this,
but Hillsdale College has been influencing conservatives like myself for decades.
(01:42):
They had a huge impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and
even as memorial service, they talked about how Charlie took
class after class after class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College
is now offering for you, the listeners of this show,
more than forty free I want to say that again,
free online courses. That's right, more than forty free online courses.
(02:06):
You can learn about the works of C. S. Lewis,
the stories in the Book of Genesis, the meaning of
the US Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic,
or the history of the ancient Christian Church, all with
Hillsdale College's free online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking
the Constitution one oh one in this course. You're going
(02:28):
to exploit the design and the purpose of the Constitution,
the challenges it faced during the Civil War, and how
it has been undermined for more than a century by
radical progressives and liberals. This twelve lecture course is self pace.
It's another reason why I love it. So start whenever
and wherever in our country. We need more Americans like
(02:51):
you and I than understand the Constitution and can defend
the freedom of the American people against the left and
their increasing encroachments on are God given rights. So start
your classes today for free. Start your free Constitution one
oh one course right now. How do you do it?
Go to Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll
(03:16):
and it's no cost. It's easy to get started. You
got to use a special website Hillsdale dot edu slash
Morning Update. Enroll for free Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
There has been a lot in the news about the
Somali population defrauding taxpayers at record rates, costing you millions
and millions and millions and millions of taxpayers dollars in Minnesota. Well,
I wish I could tell you it's gotten better, but
it isn't at all. It's actually gotten even worse. In
(03:55):
what we're finding out about how much money the Somali
community is take from all of us. How bad is it?
Nearly every Somali household with children is on welfare. That's right.
New data is showing that more than eight in ten
(04:15):
households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota
are on one or more forms of American taxpayer funded welfare.
This new data, published by the Center for Immigration Studies
is revealing this shocking news. Now. The data is actually
based on ten years a decade of data from the
(04:38):
Census Bureau's American Community Survey, known as the ACS, and
it shows drastic disparities between native born American households and
Somali born households in Minnesota, where nearly eighty thousand residents
have Somali ancestry compared to zero who had Somali ancestry
(04:59):
in Nai nineteen ninety. In particular, the data shows that
eighty one percent of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees
are on one or more form of welfare, including twenty
seven percent who are on cash welfare, fifty four percent
(05:20):
who are on food stamps, and seventy three percent who
are on medicaid. Now, many are on multiple forms of
government aid welfare. Now you compare this massive welfare to
Native born Americans residing in Minnesota, the numbers are completely
(05:41):
and staggeringly different, only twenty one percent of whom are
on one or more form of welfare. When it comes
to American Native born, including just six percent who are
on cash welfare, seven percent who are on food stamps,
teen percent who are on medicaid. Now, let me just
(06:02):
go back through these numbers and compare them. Of Native
born Americans residing Minnesota, just six percent are on cash welfare,
Somali refugees in Minnesota twenty seven percent on cash welfare,
and just seven percent of Native born Americans residing Minnesota
are on food stamps. Again, I go back and really
(06:24):
think about these numbers in your head. Of the Somali
refugees in Minnesota, fifty four percent of them are on
food stamps. And if you look at medicaid, of Native
born Americans residing Minnesota, eighteen percent are on Medicaid. Seventy
three percent of Somali refugees are on medicaid. That is
(06:46):
an insane number, a number that should scare everyone because
it's unsustainable. Now, welfare use goes even higher, by the way,
for Somali households with children that are in the home,
the ACS data find. So that was just in general numbers, right,
like a grown woman or a grown man. Now if
(07:08):
you look at households with a child in it, the
numbers skyrocket even more. Eighty nine percent of Somali headed
households with children in Minnesota are on one or more
forms of welfare. Eighty six percent of these households with
children that are Somali headed eighty six percent on medicaid,
(07:32):
and this number is the most damming. About sixty two
percent of Somali households with children in the state are
on food stamps and twenty three percent take cash welfare. Now,
most of these families are on at least two forms
of government aid, some have three even four. Quote nearly
(07:52):
every Somali household with children receive some form of welfare.
That is what the CIS researcher Jason which Wine said
in this report. The gap between Somali households with children
on welfare and Native born Americans that with children on
welfare is wide. Only about three and ten Minnesota households
(08:13):
with children take one or more forms of welfare, all right,
So thirty percent only six percent on cash welfare if
you're a Native born, ten percent in Minnesota Native born
on food stamps, and twenty eight percent on medicaid. Eighty
nine percent of Somali headed households with children Minnesota are
on one or more forms of welfare. This goes back
(08:36):
to what President Donald Trump talked about a couple of
days ago. Why on earth would we continue to bring
people into this country that we are having to take
care of indefinitely, that are costing us countless dollars when
we have plenty of Americans that need help. First, we
(08:57):
have countless felling schools, we have living in poverty. We
still have a homeless crisis where our men and women
that fought to protect and serve this country. So why
would we bring in Somali's where we know that eighty
nine percent of them, if they have children, we're going
to have to pay for their life. Where eighty six
percent of them are going to be on medicaid, Where
(09:19):
sixty two percent of them are on food stamps and
where twenty three percent takes cash, welfare and maybe even more.
These numbers aren't even close to the native born numbers. Now, disparities,
by the way, between Native born Americans and Somali refugees
in Minnesota goes deeper than welfare use. The data also
(09:39):
shows Somali refugees that are in or near poverty in
Minnesota surpasses sixty six percent, while fewer than two and
ten Native born Minnesotas live in or near the poverty line.
So almost seven out of every ten Somali refugees are
living in near the poverty line. That number is crazy.
(10:03):
But let's talk about are they at least trying to
become Americans? Are they trying to assimilate? Are they trying
to become a part of this country? The refugees that
have come over from Somalia. All right, here's some more
data for you. Just zero point seven percent of Native
born Americans in Minnesota speak English less than very well.
(10:26):
Almost sixty percent of Smali refugees say they don't speak
any English very well, including nearly half of Somali refugees
who have lived in Minnesota for more than a decade.
Samali refugees in Minnesota also tend to be vastly less
educated than their Minnesota and counterparts. Well, only five percent
of dative born Americans in Minnesota do not have a
(10:47):
high school diploma, so it's actually a very educated state.
Almost forty percent of small refugees say the same, including
more than twenty eight percent who have lived in Minnesota
for more than a decade, and they still don't have
the education they need to succeed at a high level.
You put all that together, this is a recipe for disaster.
We know it, and we have the data to prove it.
(11:10):
So why on earth are we still having these programs?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Which is the.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Question that the President of the United States of America
has been asking, and it's one that every American should
want or demand an answer from it. Now, all the
data I just gave you, I really hope you'll take
it and you'll share it. I hope you take the podcast,
share it wherever you can on social media, because this
(11:37):
is the exact type of data that needs to get
out there now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Story number two.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It brings me to another story that I also want
to bring up, and it's about exactly what is happening
with immigration in general. There's other shocking news that has
come out from the HUD secretary, warning that illegal immigration
is pushing home prices than you can imagine in new
(12:02):
comments that have come out as the agency has released
a damning report on the housing market strain. And if
you are an American that wants to own a home,
it's harder now than it's been in my lifetime. There
is a lack of affordability and home prices have gotten
incredibly high, making those forty and under in essence, renters,
(12:25):
not home owners. The Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott
Turner slammed the Biden administration for what he called an
illegal immigration and refugee crisis that has rattled the housing market,
particularly for low income renters. There is more shocking details
that he explained on Fox News Channel, and I want
(12:49):
you to hear what he had to say to Kaylee Mcananny.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I'm joined now by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner.
Secretary Turner, you know, it was interesting I was watching
some of your interviews this week and you actually linked
a legal immigration to part of the reason we have
a housing crisis.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well, good morning, Kley it's always great to be with you.
And yes, during the Biden administration, the immigration policies crippled
our nation over twelve million illegal immigrants. So illegal aliens
came across our border, really stifling our housing affordability and
supply issue in our country. And when you have this
many illegal aliens coming over taking homes that are supposed
(13:26):
to be for the American people, affordability is are automatically
going to go up. Kayley, here's an interesting stat for you.
Fifty nine percent of illegal alien families use one or
more welfare programs in America, costing US about forty two
billion dollars a year. And so we have to get
the immigration policy in order, which President Trump has done
(13:48):
and others in the administration. But yes, illegal immigration has
definitely stifled housing affordability and supply.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
One of the things that I think is really fantastic
about the Trump administration is you're always coming up with
new ideas, whether it be tariff dividends, the healthcare payments,
and in your case you're in housing, We've heard about
this idea of a portable mortgage, perhaps a fifty year mortgage,
and that we could debate the efficacy of all these ideas,
but you're coming up with solutions. Tell us about some
of those conversations. Do you all get in a room
(14:16):
and just plan and think, how can we help the
American people? Here's some new ideas.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes, Calyn, you know all too well, having us served
so faithfully in the first administration that President Trump not
only as a strategist, but he executes on ideas. And
so right now there's many ideas, a myriad of ideas
on the table as it pertains a housing affordability and
helping first time home buyers in America. I hear it,
(14:41):
You hear it, gen Z, Millennials and others, and how
we're going to be able to afford a home. And
so not only do we understand it, but you have
people leadership in this country getting together, getting stakeholders together,
industry experts to see what is the best feasible and
appropriate path that we can take to open up a
build and in our country. And I will say, in
(15:01):
addition to that, Kayley, the regulatory environment is burden some
in our country, and so at HUD we've taken down
burdened some regulations affirmatively further in fair housing, which made
HUD and National Zoning Board, restoring local control back to
the cities, back to the states, back to the localities.
And we're encouraging every locality take inventory of your regulatory
(15:24):
environment to see how you can unleash building and development
in USA community. And so these ideas taking down the
regulatory environment, public private partnerships are all part of the plan.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I go back to one of the things that Turner
said there the quote unchecked legal immigration and open borders
policies allowed by the Biden administration continue to put significant
strengd on housing pricing out American families. These policies that
plagued Americans housing market. But in Trump's presidency, Americans finally
(15:58):
have a leader fighting to restore the Senate for American
immigration policy. You look at this report and Hudd's twenty
twenty five report also found that increased immigration has driven
up the price you're paying for a house and that
unrestricted nature of the influx has both strained the housing market.
(16:22):
And this is from the report Priced Out Many American Families.
Report found that an estimated fifteen million illegal immigrants constant
thirty percent of all foreign born residents now. Turner also
added that Hudd took away federal housing Authority back mortgages
(16:43):
from illegal immigrants offered during the Biden administration, saying the
former president turned a blind eye of the issue. So
you were literally like our government was giving out the
loans and backing the loans of illegal immigrants. Now in California,
right sanctuary state. New York a sanctuary state as well, immigrants,
(17:04):
they now say this report of accountant for one hundred
percent of all rental growth and over one half of
all growth in owner occupied housing in recent years. So
if you're trying to find affordable housing in California or
New York as a state, good luck, because immigrants have
accounting for one hundred percent of all rental growth and
(17:25):
over one half of all growth in the owner occupied
housing in recent years. Nationally, there's also a major concern
the foreign born population now accounts for more than sixty
percent of the growth in rental demand. Nationwide, the foreign
born population accounted for two thirds of renal demand growth.
(17:48):
Hudds report also says that if we don't stop this,
they're going to have Americans that literally cannot afford to
live in America, is what the synopsis is. Because there
is such a competitive marketplace for renal properties, and you
can't afford to buy a home, so what is your option.
(18:08):
That's something that every American should be thinking about, and
it's exactly why, by the way, the President of the
United States America is taking this subject on saying we
have to stop it now.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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