With more demand for labor and materials, we have to hope that more workers enter the construction labor force, more companies hire and train to enable this, and more competition enters the space for construction materials. i don't know how it is in other areas, but I am hearing more and more about people sending their measurements/plans of their house digitally to china, and they get a container with a kitchen in it, with counters and sinks and cabinets for cheapnot sure if it is here since we are closer to china and have a ton of immigrants, but perhaps in the western coastal big cities tooalohasteve

My mother legally immigrated alone from a small village in the Philippines when she was 24 years old with $15 dollars in her pocket.

I am so inspired by all the young and 1st Gen immigrant members of BP, they have got the right idea, more power to them!

Can landlords ask for immigration documents?

Great stuff in Pittsburgh, probably great stuff in Joliet, not so good with European immigrant populations.

But I am also wondering about renting to undocumented immigrants.

Not sure if IRS double checks with SS or immigration for the legal ability to work.   

Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allows photocopying of the green card.

And we have a much larger population, with immigration issues.  

In some cases, landlords have asked for last 3 months + 1.5 month security deposit upfront, especially from potential tenants who have great income but have recently immigrated to the country and so do not have sufficient credit profile.