Exactly. Very little relation, when people chart out the timings of even just the larger waves of immigration vs. house prices. I think The Breach was one of the ones who had articles and/or videos about that in the past. Millennial Moron (don’t mind the name - he does great analysis) has also shown there’s been lower and lower net migration for a while now. (Conservatives are cherry picking numbers from early in the year and pretending numbers stay that way all year on social media, but the long-time trend-- which I’ve also seen on StatsCan’s site myself in the past-- is that the first half of the year always has more people coming in and the second half drops off.) So if the TFW population is dropping, why aren’t jobs getting easier to come by? Could it be our young people are struggling with today’s unfair barriers and requirements to job applications (and wasting time on phantom job postings)?
It seems LPC and CPC “swap” policies (or probably more accurately, reveal what they really feel on TFW labour) depending on who’s in power. Media is also captured by the ownership class that drives policy and wants cheap, easily-exploited labour. Governments especially like getting a boost to tax revenue from TFWs who get little to nothing back in services. Maybe the owner class will eventually stop all this… by replacing workers entirely with AI and/or robots.
If the wealthy aren’t adequately taxed to balance the economy so it’s not just a relentless upward flow (and thereby make our democracy more responsive to most of the people), we will lose our middle class to a collapse of white collar prestige jobs, combined with rising asset prices from wealthy people buying everything up with the excess piles money they have after buying our politicians and media. Rising poverty is gravy to big investors like them, after all. The more workers have to stay in debt rather than pay off houses/cars/student loans early, the more somebody gets out of their securities investments.
…but morale can remain low as always?