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This is a fair argument that's often brought up but I never see actual raw data backing it up. Housing is fucked in several places around the world, including a bunch of countries in Europe that don't have any tax breaks for specialized labor. I would love to look at some metrics like

- How many units of housing are built each year

- How many units are rented and to what demography (Portuguese families, immigrants sharing rooms, students, etc)

- How many migrants (legal and ilegal)

- How many specialized migrants each year and the % of them that eventually buy a home

- How many units are bought up by funds and other financial entities

- How much taxes and social security contributions are collected per year for specialized migrants and how that money is reinvested

- etc

I known that's basically impossible to have an accurate picture since those numbers are way too "politically loaded". Politics and facts don't mix very well so we just default to who yells the loudest (specially true in Portugal, unfortunately)

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