![]() ![]() That rises to a frankly preposterous 40 per cent in London – the most expensive city in Europe for housing. ![]() While only six per cent of Indian-born people are in social housing, an astonishing 30 per cent of sub-Saharan African migrants in the UK live in social housing. Figures from the Oxford Migration Observatory show that the proportion of foreign-born UK residents living in social housing is actually slightly higher overall than for UK-born citizens, 17 per cent compared to 16 per cent.įar from sensibly arranging a migrant population dominated by wealthy go-getters, we have actually managed to import a needier cohort of people than we had living in the country in the first place.īut the real eye-opener comes when one looks at the breakdown of the social housing uptake of different migrant groups. And given all we hear from the pro-mass migration zealots about the alleged economic boon provided, one would expect to find a very low take-up rate for social housing among migrant groups. Given all this, it surely follows that it cannot be a good idea to import people from other nations to take up social housing in the UK ahead of our own citizens. Typically the rent on a social home is about half that which the same home would attract on the private market – a subsidy worth several thousand pounds a year to tenants. Yet having a council or housing association tenancy does not just bring a family some much-needed stability on the home front, it is also worth a small fortune. Our planning system is necessarily rigorous given our relatively small landmass and high population density, so the physical capacity of the state to sufficiently increase supply is also constrained. ![]() At least 30,000 people have been waiting for ten years or more.Īnd it is not even just a question of more money being needed to tackle the chronic shortfall. More than a million British families are on social housing waiting lists. I THINK we can all agree that social housing is a resource in very scarce supply in the United Kingdom. ![]()
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