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Here’s News – ‘Immigrants’ Cost a Boatload to House – HotAir

December 18, 2025
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Breaking news, no?

Not really to the rational mind. Anyone whose brain isn’t clouded by an overactive case of TDS with an aggressive side diagnosis of terminal progressivism can see the simple equation play out before their unblinkered eyes:





X amount of bodies require X amount of roofs to cover them = someone has to pay for all this

It ain’t rocket science. But it is apparently an abacus too far for the opposing side to sling beads back and forth, figuring.

Eventually, though, a bill does come due, no matter how one tries to hide, sugarcoat, or avoid it, and that’s what the city of Berlin is dealing with right now, thanks to all its current costly guests.

A YIKES of epic proportion, although how it’s a surprise, I have no idea.

…How our money is squandered❗️

The financially totally broke BERLIN spends around 1 BILLION € annually on accommodating migrants from abroad.

Despite high costs, migrants continue to be housed in expensive hotels instead of in cheaper residential containers.

The DUMME MICHEL pays❗️

Nearly a billion euros a year to put roofs over ‘migrant’ heads while the city cuts back on essential services for citizens.

ACH DU HELIGE SCHIEßE

This mind-blowing figure is correct.

Housing migrants in Berlin has cost taxpayers dearly, and new data confirms this. Figures confirmed to the German Press Agency (dpa) by sources within the Senate, and cited by Die Welt, indicate that in 2024, the city paid €883 million for providing migrant accommodations, up from €312 million in 2020.

At the same time, Berlin is implementing major budget cuts due to budget shortfalls, with the city taking on more and more debt.

Large-scale accommodations such as Tegel and Tempelhof have even higher costs, with Tegel alone accounting for approximately €260 million of total costs in 2024.

Annual expenditures for the accommodation, care, and integration of refugees in Berlin nearly doubled between 2022 and 2025, reaching €2.24 billion. At one point, a state of emergency to secure emergency loans for financing was even considered.





It doesn’t help that the German government seems to have its priorities totally backwards.

Hamburg’s latest state-of-the-art residential complex is nearing completion — but not for locals. The €41 million project in the Bahrenfeld district is exclusively reserved for migrant families, reinforcing a growing trend across Germany where asylum seekers receive priority access to housing while German citizens face an ongoing housing crisis.

The six-building complex, built on the former Wichmannstraße sports field, offers 107 modern apartments for 370 asylum seekers. With floor-to-ceiling windows, green roofs, balconies, and underfloor heating, it represents the pinnacle of contemporary urban living. It even includes communal spaces, playgrounds, and on-site social workers to ensure a smooth integration process.

Despite nearly 2,000 people living on the streets in Hamburg — and thousands more struggling with unaffordable rent — not a single local will be allowed to move in. The project is part of the “Living in the Future” initiative, designed exclusively for families “seeking protection with an escape background.”

Always with migrant accommodation in mind. Migrants are always ‘urgent,’ so the rules the citizens have to follow can be brushed aside in order to handle the emergency they present.

So convenient.

…Local residents have voiced strong opposition to the project, not only due to its exclusivity but also because of the way it was approved. Normally, such a project would require a public consultation process that takes years, allowing citizens to have a say in urban development. However, in this case, the Hamburg Senate bypassed the standard process, citing the urgent need to house migrants.





The expenditures have gotten so insane – a million a month on one location where someone signed a ten-year lease (CHA-CHING!) – that even the Green Party is complaining.

…More than 1 million euros per month costs a new refugee shelter in Berlin Friedrichshain. The property is rented for 10 years. Meanwhile, refugee costs are exploding in Berlin anyway. Berlin spent almost 900,000,000 euros just in 2024 on accommodating asylum seekers. Almost three times as much as in 2020.

So if you next time wonder why there’s no money for anything, schools and bridges are rotting away, even though you pay a ton of taxes. Here’s one reason for that.

Ps: Funny enough, it’s the Greens, who govern in Friedrichshain, who are voicing concerns.

Of the 36,851 people living in state accommodations in Berlin as of November, a good number of them might be any of the 18,600 migrants eligible for deportation.

Hey – now there’s an idea. Why hasn’t anyone thought of that?

Around 18,600 migrants subject to deportation are living in Berlin. The Interior Administration has now instructed the police on how to proceed with deportations.





To be fair, some have tried, but the German courts stepped in to make it more difficult – of course, they did, just like ours have been doing.

Polizei might have a deportation warrant, but that now only allows them to knock on a door. If no one answers, they have to leave.

Deportations from refugee shelters are becoming more difficult. On November 20, the Federal Constitutional Court published its ruling that a judicial search warrant is generally required for deportations from rooms in asylum centers. In practice, this now means that police officers tasked with picking up a foreigner awaiting deportation must knock – and if no one answers, leave.

Yeah. Gonna take a while to send those freeloaders home at that rate.

If they do manage to start shipping people home, though…well. And stop shipping people in – that has to be said.

Anyway, the more migrants leave, the more Germans should be seeing their own housing costs start to slip down in price and go up in availability.

Thanks to the efforts of the Trump administration, even as limited by judicial action and activism in cities, the US is seeing this phenomenon firsthand. It really illustrates what a drag illegal immigrants are on the economics of the whole of society in ways people don’t consider.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been touting the decrease in rents and attributing a substantial part of it to the reduction in illegal immigrant numbers in the US – both administration deportation efforts and illegals self-deporting – that have proven successful so far in additional benefits.





Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has identified the illegal immigration crisis as an obvious factor driving the increase in rent prices.Appearing on “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business, Bessent said that “Bidenflation” during the Biden administration hit working Americans hardest, and that the Trump administration is working hard to relieve some of that pressure. Host Maria Bartiromo asked him what specific policies could bring prices down, and he said that enforcement of immigration law is a leverage point for lowering costs across the board.

Bessent predicted that inflation will drop substantially in the first six months of next year. He cited falling rents and said that large-scale, unrestricted immigration during the Biden years pushed housing costs higher, particularly for working Americans.

“There’s a recent study out from Wharton School that shows every 1 percent increase in population, rents went up 1 percent. So President Trump, by enforcing the border, sending home more than 2 million illegals, rents are—we’re now seeing [Class] D and C rents coming down substantially. I think that will continue for the rest of the year.

The Wharton study he cited is fascinating for how immigrants affect housing, particularly in urban areas, and then how that spreads out.

…The study Bessent pointed to was published by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Noting that immigrants tend to live in rented housing and concentrate in certain metropolitan areas with strong immigrant and ethnic networks, the author compiled data on rents, housing prices, immigration, income, and employment for several metropolitan areas ranging from 1983-1997 and the 1970-2000 Censuses.

The study found a causal relationship between immigration and rents.

“An immigration inflow that amounts to 1 percent of the initial metropolitan area population is associated with, roughly, a 1 percent increase in rents and housing values,” the study found. It also noted, citing labor literature, that a 1 percent increase in the immigrant population lowers wages by 0.03 percent.

That study has been backed by more recent research.

A 2017 study from the Urban Institute found roughly the same results, with a 1 percent increase in immigrant population in a metropolitan statistical area linked to a 0.8 percent increase in both rents and home prices. But the study found “spillover effects” in the surrounding areas. A 1 percent increase was linked to a 1.6 percent increase in rents and a 9.6 percent increase in home prices in surrounding metropolitan statistical areas, possibly caused by native populations moving into the suburbs when immigrants move into the city.





A Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) report in 2025 was even more straightforward on the impact of the surge of illegals into housing markets. It basically asserted that the exponential growth in rents and housing prices in some areas was 100% attributable to immigration.

Had the native population remained at its relatively stable ebb and flow, none of these exponential rate increases would have happened.

…Referring to the aforementioned Wharton study, HUD found that “[i]mmigration accounts for up to 100 percent of housing demand growth in some regions, and for two-thirds of rental demand growth nationwide.” Just in the states of California and New York, immigrants accounted for fully 100 percent of all growth in rents and more than half of owned housing.

I can’t imagine what would happen in, say, Berlin if they were able to remove half of their very costly migrants and return them to their homes of origin, as it’s darn near half of them who are eligible to be deported.

As the ICE efforts continue here, and more are either deported or take it upon themselves to leave, the full scope of how much distortion and damage their unrestricted presence in the country has done to our economy, and the hopes of young wannabe homeowners, should become crystal clear.

And it’s pretty unforgivable already.

It’s not only about taking the construction or kitchen jobs. 

It’s about taking American dreams that never belonged to them.


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