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New York Magazine admitted this week that mass immigration to the United States is, in fact, “bad for housing prices” for Americans looking for affordable single-family homes. The admission from the left-wing publication comes as years of research has shown that the nation’s admission of more than a million legal immigrants annually, in addition to millions of illegal aliens, helps send housing prices surging for working- and middle-class Americans. “Yet one key sector in which immigrants drive higher demand is housing. People need homes,” New York Magazine writer Eric Levitz admitted . Rather than decreasing overall immigration levels, as most Americans want, Levitz argues that despite mass immigration being “bad for housing prices,” the U.S. ought to make mass immigration “work” by enriching real estate developers with a dismantling of local zoning laws and rapid construction of multi-family complexes in single-family neighborhoods. WATCH: Fmr. Obama Acting ICE … [Read more...] about New York Magazine Admits Mass Immigration Is ‘Bad for Housing Prices’

A U-Haul driver is facing several charges following his arrest Monday night after crashing a vehicle into security barriers at Lafayette Park , across the street from the White House, according to the U.S. Park Police. The details of the incident are unclear, but Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed Tuesday morning that a preliminary investigation revealed the driver “may have intentionally struck the security barriers.” The man—who has not been identified—is now facing multiple charges including threatening to kill, kidnap, or inflict harm on a president, vice president, or family member, according to CNN . A law enforcement source told the outlet that no explosives or incendiary devices were found inside the truck after the driver’s arrest. The man also faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, destruction of federal property, trespassing, and reckless operation of a motor vehicle, Park Police said. “Shortly before 10:00 p.m. Monday, Secret … [Read more...] about Nazi Flag Seized After Man Crashes Truck Into Barriers Near White House

The driver of a rented box truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been identified by police as 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula. Fox News reports Kandula faces multiple charges including assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, the threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a President, Vice President, or family, destruction of federal property, and trespassing. Officials released his name Tuesday and said he came from Chesterfield, a St. Louis suburb. No one was injured in the crash. #BREAKING : U.S. Park Police identified the driver as Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, of Chesterfield, Missouri. He faces multiple charges. https://t.co/SFhM4WfZJY — FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) May 23, 2023 AP reports the Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department searched the truck after the crash. Video posted by WUSA-TV shows a police officer at the scene sorting through several pieces of evidence … [Read more...] about Police: 19-Year-Old Sai Varshith Kandula Drove U-Haul into Barrier Near White House, Nazi Flag Found in Vehicle

In December, the chef Yuji Tani opened a second edition of the highly seasonal French-Japanese restaurant he owns in Tokyo. The original, now 15 years old, is called House . The new one, in Greenpoint, is House Brooklyn . For what it’s worth, neither House is in a house. The first is in a black-glass cube in the Nishi-Azabu neighborhood. The newer House shares a reclaimed industrial space called 50 Norman with two other Japanese businesses. On the left is a shop that packs ready-to-brew dashi tea bags with a powder ground from cracked leathery mushrooms, stiff green panes of kelp, blank-eyed sardines and other things a retriever might get into on the beach at low tide. The shop’s dashi figures prominently in the traditional teishoku meal sets it serves. On the right side of the building is an arts-and-crafts store where you can buy ceramic matcha bowls, delicate handblown glass bottles and a clear skateboard embedded with daisies. House Brooklyn is all the way in … [Read more...] about Restaurant Review: Fluid Japanese-French Cuisine at House Brooklyn

See the article in its original context from December 22, 1972 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. In a thing (as opposed to a film) titled "Last House on the Left," four slobbering fiends capture and torture two "groovy" young girls who airily explore the bad section of a town and more or less ask for trouble.When I walked out, after 50 minutes (with 35 to go), one girl had just been dismembered with a machete. They had started in on the other with a slow switchblade. The party who wrote this … [Read more...] about ‘Last House on Left’

Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock The city’s top housing official announced on Wednesday that she will be leaving her job by July. Gothamist reports that Jessica Katz, who serves as the chief housing officer in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, was first appointed to the newly created role in January 2022, just weeks after the mayor was sworn in. It’s not yet clear who will replace Katz or if the role itself will be phased out, per Gothamist. Katz’s decision comes as the city is grappling with a critical housing shortage and an accompanying intense homelessness crisis. On Wednesday, City Hall asked the courts to suspend the city’s decades-old right-to-shelter law , citing an increase in asylum seekers transported from southern states, which has added to the already immense number of people in the shelter system. Adams has made addressing the city’s housing scarcity one of his top issues, pledging to build 500,000 new homes over the next decade. That plan, … [Read more...] about City’s Top Housing Official to Resign This Summer