Migration and social housing Housing 'not favouring migrants' WE PAY FRENCH £15M TO CATCH THEIR ILLEGALS PARIS PARK WHERE MIGRANTS PLAN NEW LIFE IN UK How ten per cent of State housing is taken up by immigrantsA selection of recent media reports
Commenting on the Human Rights and Equality Commission report into the allocation of social housing, the Co-Chairmen of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration said: The elephant in the room is the huge impact of migration on overall demand for housing.
Balanced Migration (07-Jul-2009)
There is no evidence that new arrivals in the UK are able to jump council housing queues, an Equality and Human Rights Commission report says. Once they settle and are entitled to help, it adds, the same proportion live in social housing as UK-born residents.
BBC News (07-Jul-2009)
GORDON Brown yesterday pledged £15million of British taxpayers cash to root out illegal immigrants in France.
Sunday Express (07-Jul-2009)
AN idyllic park in the heart of a fashionable district of Paris has become the latest departure point for hundreds of immigrants seeking a new life in Britain.
Daily Express (07-Jul-2009)
One in ten state-subsidised homes is occupied by an immigrant family, the Government's equality watchdog said yesterday. The first estimate of the impact of immigration on social housing means nearly 400,000 homes have gone to tenants who were born abroad.
Daily Mail (07-Jul-2009)
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
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