At last. Too many homeless citizens to spend public housing on noncitizens.

Thanks for the heads-up. I work in public housing and these news articles are how we are typically notified!

Despite likely to be labelled 'right wing'...isn't a governments first responsibility to its citizens?

I'd understand carve outs for foreign workers, etc...but if you're a foreign WORKer, you'd hope that the work could pay for housing?

Social housing is typically a safety net for those fallen on hard times, or people with various handicaps and unable to work?

This is a consequence of a lot of people wanting immigrants but not wanting to pass the laws that would allow the number they want. Instead they try to bend the law (see asylum rules under Biden) or ignore it.

Personally I'd like to see more immigrants brought into the United States. Taking people from the rest of the world and turning them into Americans is a core competence of the country. That said the way it's being done is totally nutty.

I don't want my tax dollars going to house illegal immigrants in America.

Your tax dollars will house them anyways. If you don't like that, your only option is to leave.

Stop stalking me.

oh wow, it's real. I'm not that active on hn, but is this a normal thing here?

Their reputation is so poor that every comment they write goes straight to an OPML file in my RSS feed.

I'll consider removing them once OP stops ignoring HN guidelines.

Stop stalking me. Remove me from your notifications.

We need you to stop using HN primarily for political battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This problem goes back quite a while, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562450 (Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522257 (Oct 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752754 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789929 (Aug 2019)

Fair point. I have been trying to reduce political comments since you pointed this out. My request is that if HN wants to avoid political comments, HN should update its policy to not allow political posts. Otherwise the temptation is sometimes too great.

That won't work for a ton of different reasons that we learned the hard way. One is that there's no agreement about what counts as "politics". Another is that if you try to exclude politics, the effect is to motivate political commenters into posting even more—understandably so, from their perspective.

Probably the most important reason is that there's a fair body of content that is on topic for HN but also has political overlap: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

So HN will always have a certain amount of politics and all we can do is ask people to keep it to a relatively low percentage of what they do on HN, to respect the site guidelines while they do it, and to remember the intended use of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You can't target a specific user like that here, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html