Skip to main content

The UK Housing "Crisis" - private and social housing

Much of the demand for new housing in the UK is due to immigration and the social housing crisis in London is partly the result of immigration.

The coalition government promised to reduce the influx of people from hundreds of thousands annually to tens of thousands. How have they done? The following quote is from the Home Office Immigration Statistics:

"The number of people granted settlement (allowed to stay permanently) reached a record 241,000 in 2010 (including dependants), having increased significantly in recent years. However the latest data, for the year to June 2011, show an 8% fall in grants of settlement (208,000), with decreases in both the work and the family categories. In the second quarter of 2011 there were (only) 4,800 asylum applications..."

This amounts to 70% of UK population growth (See Predicted population of Britain).  Property analysts clearly link this influx of people to the housing crisis in the UK.

What is the government's response to the need for hundreds of thousands of new homes to house these people? England has an appalling housing crisis so what will the government do? Decrease inflows? No, they propose to overturn the planning regulations that have at least preserved some semblance of "England" in the face of epic population inflows over the past two decades:

Mr Shapps, the housing minister said that: "there were also plans to allow land twice the size of Leicester to be released in order to build homes across the country."

This should make any English person weep. Our governing classes are happy to continue this epic migration, destroying our natural and social environment, creating problems from adult illiteracy to pressure on the NHS for no reason other than that it makes them appear holy and so get the votes of the middle classes. The electorate must promise themselves that they will not vote for the pro-migration parties (labour and lib-dem) and avoid voting Tory until this migration crisis is resolved.

Incidentally, if you are anti-immigration you have a democratic tool, just never vote Labour again, Labour set up the current mass migration in 1997 - just look at the migration graphs.



The graph above shows the scale of UK immigration. ONS Data. ( Immigration into the UK accounts for 30% of all EU population growth. Immigration over 250000 a year is "mass immigration". See Predicted population of Britain.)
The graph above shows the scale of UK immigration. (See Office of National Statistics Figures. Notice how Labour doubled the migration rate as their first policy initiative in 1997 and also the epic scale of UK immigration which accounts for 30% of all EU population growth - equal to the population of Birmingham every 4 years).

Immigration is also creating shortages of social housing, especially in London where in some boroughs up to 50% of new social housing lets are being awarded to foreign nationals.

The government body appointed to examine the effects of immigration, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, was clearly aware of this problem so commissioned a report, Social housing allocation and immigrant communities, to head off any criticism of the free movement of labour. It had an executive summary that headlined the fact that only 2% of those in social housing in the UK (including Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland)  were recent immigrants. The report carefully hid the interesting figure which is the percentage of those being awarded new social housing placements now.

The principle graphic from this report, shown below, was intended to show that 2% of the nationwide total of all social housing is a tiny amount (unlike 11% of new allocations in London or 50% of new allocations in Harringey).  The graphic cannot hide the fact that immigration is putting huge pressure on rented accommodation, especially private rented accommodation, nationwide.

 The situation in London is far more serious.  The effect of immigration on social housing provision has been investigated by Migrationwatch whose  ".. research, is focused on London where the waiting list increased by 60% between 2002 and 2010 to 362,000.  It shows that at least 11% of social housing lets in London were given to foreign nationals. In the boroughs of Ealing and Haringey half of all social housing lets went to foreign nationals." (Who is being allocated social housing in London?).

It is the sheer scale of immigration that is causing the problems.  As you can see, a tiny country like England cannot accept half a million new people every year without causing suffering to the inhabitants.  Immigration is causing suffering now but the government is deliberately misinforming the people about the cause of this suffering.  If the southern European economies collapse even further we cannot offer all of our social housing to economic migrants and to those who want free social security, health and education.  If the immigration and migration rates were halved and returned to the pre-labour, pre-1997 levels it would give us all a breathing space.

These globalisers must be stopped but the English have been educated at school and through media propaganda to believe that globalisation and the free movement of labour is the answer to our problems when it is obviously the cause of them.  See Why globalisation is the cause of the ills of the 21st century


See

Predicted population of Britain

Migration and unemployment


Is the pro-immigration lobby racist..?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Falklands have always been Argentine - Las Malvinas son Argentinas

"The Falklands have always been Argentine" is taught to every Argentine child as a matter of faith.  What was Argentina during the time when it "always" possessed Las Malvinas?  In this article I will trace the history of Argentina in the context of its physical and political relationship with "Las Malvinas", the Falkland Islands.  The Argentine claim to the Falkland Islands dates from a brief episode in 1831-32 so it is like Canada claiming the USA despite two centuries of separate development. This might sound like ancient history but Argentina has gone to war for this ancient claim so the following article is well worth reading. For a summary of the legal case see: Las Malvinas: The Legal Case Argentina traces its origins to Spanish South America when it was part of the Viceroyalty of the Rio del Plata.  The Falklands lay off the Viceroyalty of Peru, controlled by the Captain General of Chile.  In 1810 the Falklands were far from the geographical b...
35 comments
Read more

Practical Idealism by Richard Nicolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi

Coudenhove-Kalergi was a pioneer of European integration. He was the founder and President for 49 years of the Paneuropean Union. His parents were Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, and Mitsuko Aoyama, the daughter of an oil merchant, antiques-dealer, and huge landowner family in Tokyo. His "Pan-Europa" was published in 1923 and contained a membership form for the Pan-Europa movement. Coudenhove-Kalergi's movement held its first Congress in Vienna in 1926. In 1927 the French Prime Minister, Aristide Briand was elected honorary president.  Personalities attending included: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud. Figures who later became central to founding the EU, such as Konrad Adenauer became members . His basic idea was that democracy was a transitional stage that leads to rule by a new aristocracy that is largely taken from the Jewish "master race" (Kalergi's terminology). His movement was reviled by Hitler and H...
2 comments
Read more

Membership of the EU: pros and cons

5th December 2013, update May 2016 Nigel Lawson, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer,  recently criticised the UK membership of the EU , the media has covered his mainstream view as if he is a bad boy starting a fight in the school playground, but is he right about the EU? What has changed that makes EU membership a burning issue?  What has changed is that the 19 countries of the Eurozone are now seeking political union to escape their financial problems.   Seven further EU countries have signed up to join the Euro but the British and Danish have opted out.  The EU is rapidly becoming two blocks - the 26 and Britain and Denmark.   Lawson's fear was that if Britain stays in the EU it will be isolated and dominated by a Eurozone bloc that uses "unified representation of the euro area" , so acting like a single country which controls 90% of the vote in the EU with no vetoes available to the UK in most decisions.  The full plans for Eurozone po...
15 comments
Read more