One issue here is that, taken as a whole, the vast majority of real estate in the US is incredibly cheap. In some places you can get land literally for free, generally with the condition that you build (or park - some even allow mobile homes) a home on that land. But as education has increased so has the desire of people to live and work in the most desirable areas in the US where the highest paying jobs are. It's not hard to see what happens there. A huge and never-ending increase in demand paired with wages way above the national norm for those who do establish themselves successfully. You're going to naturally send the price of housing skyrocketing.
The push for immigration is, in my opinion, coming primarily from the private sector who then "donates" to government to do their bidding. The reason is, as you mention, to drive down wages. This is likely even the reason for the push of trying to get more women into computer science. There's no shortage of developers, but there's also not an extreme surplus as there is for many other jobs. Getting more women in the field would stand to potentially near double the labor force which would enable companies to sharply cut wages. And conveniently it also sounds like a socially progressive movement and so companies work to undermine a labor force while getting cheered on by that same labor force for doing so.
Anyhow, these problems will ultimately only be solved when we stop pretending that 95% of this country doesn't exist. That goes for employee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist alike.
Unfortunately, even in rural areas you must convince the local government to bless your proposed property development. This puts the brakes on many ideas in the embryonic stage.
The push for immigration is, in my opinion, coming primarily from the private sector who then "donates" to government to do their bidding. The reason is, as you mention, to drive down wages. This is likely even the reason for the push of trying to get more women into computer science. There's no shortage of developers, but there's also not an extreme surplus as there is for many other jobs. Getting more women in the field would stand to potentially near double the labor force which would enable companies to sharply cut wages. And conveniently it also sounds like a socially progressive movement and so companies work to undermine a labor force while getting cheered on by that same labor force for doing so.
Anyhow, these problems will ultimately only be solved when we stop pretending that 95% of this country doesn't exist. That goes for employee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist alike.