{"id":1004191523,"date":"2017-09-22T05:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004191523"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:25:10","slug":"economy-watch-immigration-policy-changes-impact-on-cre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-immigration-policy-changes-impact-on-cre\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Immigration Policy Changes&#8217; Impact on CRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By D.C. Stribling, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004191527\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/CW-Immigration-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004191527\" data-attachment-id=\"1004191527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-immigration-policy-changes-impact-on-cre\/cw-immigration-2017\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/CW-Immigration-2017.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"470,494\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Samantha Goldberg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1506334421&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"C&#038;W Immigration 2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Foreign-born workers make up a larger share of most occupations than in 2011 (Courtesy Cushman &#038; Wakefield  U.S. Immigration Policy study)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/CW-Immigration-2017.jpg?w=470\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004191527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/CW-Immigration-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign-born workers make up a larger share of most occupations than in 2011 (Courtesy Cushman &amp; Wakefield  U.S. Immigration Policy study)\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/CW-Immigration-2017.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/CW-Immigration-2017.jpg?resize=285,300 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004191527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign-born workers make up a larger share of most occupations than in 2011 (Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cushmanwakefield.com\/en\/research-and-insight\/2017\/cre-immigration-policy-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cushman &amp; Wakefield U.S. Immigration Policy study<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last month, a revised version of the RAISE Act, a bill that representing a major overhaul of U.S. immigration policy, was introduced in the U.S. Senate. Though the changes of its passage are thought to be remote, at least this year, Cushman &amp; Wakefield released a study on Thursday on how such changes could impact commercial real estate and corporate occupancy.<\/p>\n<p>Among other changes, the proposed legislation would impose a reduction in total legal immigration over the coming decade; a change in how immigrants are prioritized and granted access to the U.S.; and a hard limit on the number of refugees allowed to enter the country each year (50,000).<\/p>\n<h2>Labor shortages<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cCertain industries such as ours are likely to be disproportionately impacted by these proposed changes,\u201d<\/em> noted Cushman &amp; Wakefield\u2019s Revathi Greenwood, Americas Head of Research. For instance, legal, foreign-born workers fill 31 percent of buildings\/grounds maintenance jobs and a quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/construction-industry-backlog-up\/\">construction positions<\/a>.<em> &#8220;Limiting their access into the U.S would exacerbate the shortage of workers these sectors already face.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2000, the number of foreign-born workers employed in the U.S. has increased by 42 percent, with management\/professional occupations representing the fastest-growing category over that time (up 75 percent). An estimated 3.5 million foreign-born residents work in the management and business field\u2014a main driver of office demand.<\/p>\n<p>There would also be a disproportion impact on cities. Historically, immigrants have been drawn to gateway cities in the U.S., in addition to a handful of other large coastal cities. Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia are the five cities with the largest immigrant populations, explained Cushman &amp; Wakefield Economist Rebecca Rockey. Not only do immigrants make up nearly one-third of the populations in these markets, but for some of them, immigration has driven population growth there in the two decades from 1995 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, immigrants are beginning to move away from the country\u2019s gateway markets. In 2006, 41 percent of people obtaining permanent resident status resided in one of the six gateway markets. By 2015, the percentage had dropped to 36 percent. During that same decade, the number of people obtaining permanent resident status in seven other cities clustered on the West Coast, in Texas and in the Midwest increased by more than 3 percent, according to Cushman &amp; Wakefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limiting the number of immigrants to the U.S. would exacerbate the labor shortages that several real estate-related fields are already facing, according to a recent Cushman &#038; Wakefield study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004191527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742],"tags":[32799,37657,37658],"class_list":["post-1004191523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest","tag-cushman-wakefield","tag-raise-act","tag-u-s-citizenship-and-immigration-services"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Economy Watch: Immigration Policy Changes&#039; 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