Read all, excellent analysis/advice!-----The Truth About America's Housing Crisis - Illinois Review

It’s difficult to get an exact number because of tens of millions of illegal aliens, but it’s a decent guess; twice as many as we had just 70 years ago. - John F. Di Leo

Has available housing kept up with this huge increase?
If not – and it certainly hasn’t – then there’s the first and primary cause of housing unaffordability.

• When demand goes up and supply can’t meet it, the price climbs. 
• This is the case, no matter what the commodity is.

Since we don’t have a spike in native population growth (people are reproducing at lower rates than ever), virtually all this increase is caused by immigration, both legal and illegal.

• If you want to solve the problem, the answer is simple: stop immigration, deport the illegals who are already here, and give the country a chance to catch up before you start allowing immigration again...