外国人労働者の流入が、この地域で深刻な住宅難を引き起こした。

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English Translation

The influx of foreign workers has caused a serious housing problem in this area.

Furigana

外国人(がいこくじん)労働者(ろうどうしゃ)の流入(りゅうにゅう)が、この地域(ちいき)で深刻(しんこく)な住宅難(じゅうたくなん)を引(ひ)き起(お)こした。

Romanji

Gaikokujin rōdōsha no ryūnyū ga, kono chiiki de shinkokuna jūtakunan o hikiokoshita.

Words

外国人 (がいこくじん)

foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese

労働者 (ろうどうしゃ)

employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

流入 (りゅうにゅう)

afflux; influx

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

此の (この)

this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)

地域 (ちいき)

area; region

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

深刻 (しんこく)

serious; severe; grave; acute

住宅難 (じゅうたくなん)

housing shortage

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

引き起こす (ひきおこす)

to cause; to induce; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)