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Post by Totheleft on Jul 11, 2024 0:54:08 GMT
Do you know homelessness has very little to do with the lack of housing there lots of reasons people are homeless . The main Reason they lost there former tenancy There are indeed many reasons why people are homeless, and importing hundreds of thousands of zero skilled immigrants is hardly likely to improve the situation. Of course it adds to it by what degree with can differ |
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 11, 2024 6:27:49 GMT
In places like London where 48% of social housing goes to households headed by people born outside of Britain immigration obviously does have a very large impact on homelessness.
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Post by Dan Dare on Jul 11, 2024 6:49:33 GMT
In places like London where 48% of social housing goes to households headed by people born outside of Britain immigration obviously does have a very large impact on homelessness. If Grenfell Tower is anything to go by that's a massive understatement. Around 90% of residents there were not white British. |
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Post by aristaeus on Jul 11, 2024 7:14:36 GMT
That money was always lost - that is what it has cost so far. Keeping the scheme wouldn't get that money back, it would just cost even more money to keep it going. Don't blame Labour, blame the Tories for spaffing so much money on an insane, illegal idea. Also, why complain about £290m when Brexit has cost £140bn (that's 482 times as much). |
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Post by witchfinder on Jul 11, 2024 10:34:21 GMT
The housing shortage, which has been with us throughout the last 14 years, has got very little to to with immigrants. The fact that even Conservative commentators are saying this is a good plan, and long overdue ought to tell you something. If I were an illegal migrant sitting on the beach in Calais, and if someone told me that by attempting to get to England would result in a 97% or 98% of staying in England, but a 2% chance of been taken to Rwanda, I would take my chance, and so will most illegal migrants, the odds are stacked well in their favour. Most of the small boats are organised by criminal gangs, and the tentacles of these gangs go as far as Syria, Turkey, Vietnam and North Africa. We successfully crack international crime through well organised agencies and international co-operation, and through intelligence. The Prime Minister laid out his plan before the electorate, it is contained within the Manifesto. What we do with crime, the police, MI6 and Interpol is to be also done with the UK Border and Immigration Service, a new "Border Command" is going to be set up. Will it work ? ... I dont know, but it seems to make sense that if we can smash Cocaine gangs and Terrorists, then surely by using the same / similar agencies, we can smash people smuggling gangs. ! Christ almighty are you being serious? You claim the housing shortage has nothing, or very little to do with immigration! Mind boggling. The population has increased by 8 million over the past two decades and net immigration is running at 780,000 a year. And you reckon this has got nothing to do with the housing shortage? Incredible. As for 'stopping the boats', Starmer is using this as a smokescreen. He may stop them, or slow them, but the number of immigrants arriving in the UK from the EU/France will increase under this government that is an absolute 22 carat diamond encrusted guarantee. The EU want Starmer to take 100,000 a year and the chances are he will because he's an EU rule taker, but it will not stop illegal immigration. The UK is seen as a soft touch and the only way that will change is to have a proper centre right Conservative government, and after five years of this government, I think that's exactly what people will vote for. Immigration has had its role in the Housing Crisis, but it is over-played, and what Reform UK say, and those who support Reform UK is a very long way from both the truth and reality. In 2010 the coalition government cut funding for affordable social housing by 63% which led to an 83% fall in the delivery of new Social Housing. The housing crisis has been with us for 20 years, part due to homeless people, part due to housing poverty ( people who struggle to pay rents or mortgages, but particularly private rents ), people in unsuitable accommodation, people who cannot afford deposits and mortgages, not enough homes of all types been built. In 2021-2022, there were 7,500 social homes built, which can only be described as ridiculous, its estimated that there has to be at least 90,000 social homes built each year until 2030. Of that piss poor 7,500 new social homes built, a percentage will be lost to Right To Buy We need housing building on an industrial scale, its a symptom of governments failing to plan for the future, and in order to build the homes needed, NIMBY's have to be brushed aside, and planning rules changed. |
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 11, 2024 14:39:36 GMT
On Thursday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will publish data showing total net immigration in 2023, which is expected to be high, after two unprecedented records set in 2021 and 2022.
Rents typically rise roughly in line with wages, but since 2021 rent growth has far outpaced salary increases. Now, Britain is grappling with a rental crisis as homes become increasingly unaffordable.
Between mid-2021 and the start of 2024, UK rents rose by 30pc, according to property website Zoopla. This was nearly double the 17pc increase in wages over the same period.
The figures are in stark contrast to the decade up to mid-2021, when rents climbed by 26pc over the 10-year period, slightly less than the 27pc increase in wages.
Andrew Wishart, who runs the housing service at Capital Economics, said: “This means rents are 11pc higher than would be explained by the usual relationship between pay and rent. The vast majority of that is because of higher net migration.”
This means that around a third of the 30pc increase in rents can be attributed to immigration, Mr Wishart said.
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