HOMES provided by local authorities and housing associations are a vital lifeline for some of the most vulnerable people in Britain. While they are expensive (with an implied subsidy of tens of billions per year), they are worth preserving as a final lifeline for Brits who, through no fault of their own, either cannot work or who cannot afford to buy or pay for private accommodation.
The advent of mass migration into Britain has seen social housing turn from a last resort for the vulnerable into a first resort for economic migrants. Today, one in five social homes in England and Wales are occupied by someone born overseas – almost one million (taxpayer-subsidised) homes in total. It’s even worse in our urban centres, which tend to have higher rents and thus higher social home subsidies than the country overall.
In London, for example, the average social housing rent is £117 per week compared with £518 per week in the private sector. Is it any wonder young people struggle to buy and rent, and end up living in family homes or dependent on their parents?
As for building sufficient homes to meet demand, this can never happen while immigration remains at its current levels. The 755,000 people added to our population in the year to mid-2024 (98 per cent due to immigration) would require 343,000 homes given the average UK household size of 2.2 people. However, only a net 221,070 homes were built over the same period.
As of the 2021 census, immigrants occupied:
Last week we also discovered – courtesy of Rob Bates at the Centre for Migration Control – that almost 2million foreign citizens are claiming some form of benefit, including universal credit, child allowance, disability benefit or pension credit.
It’s clear that mass migration into Britain is sustained with equally massive subsidies from the British taxpayer. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that British citizens born in Britain should be given priority over migrants for social housing and benefits paid for by British taxpayers.
You can find out more about the number of immigrants living in social housing in your local area here. https://migrationfacts.com/
From social media
Political commentator Charlie Cole has shared a graph showing the number of Health and Care Worker visas issued between 2021 and 2025 – three-quarters of which have gone to dependents, rather than workers:
And independent journalist Max Tempers has
published a new Freedom of Information Act discovery
revealing that 20 per cent of all unworthy vehicle offences in the UK were committed by people with non-British driving licences.
