Thursday, Jul 29, 2010
More housing, but not for UK people
Mail: Nearly 100,000 new homes must be built every year for immigrants
''Nearly 100,000 new homes must be built every year just to provide housing for immigrants, ministers disclosed yesterday. Four out of every ten new houses or flats built to cope with the rising population will go to a migrant, they said. Over a 25-year period, immigrants will require 2.5million extra homes unless the Government meets its pledges to bring about a major reduction in numbers arriving to live in Britain.''
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1. mark wadsworth said...
That's another classic bit of Home-Owner-Ism, blame high house prices on immigrants.
As a Ukipper I'm as sceptical about the merits of an open door immigration policy as the next man, but immigration and high house prices have got absolutely nothing to do with each other.
2. landofconfusion said...
I had a discussion a few weeks ago with a BTL'er. He was of the opinion that a large number of relatively poor people can cause a significant increase house prices, even though none of them could afford to buy.
And it is the same here. So what if 100,000 low wage EU workers immigrate? Is the 'Mail saying that any of them will be able to afford a house at these prices?
3. Hp Hoper said...
It doesnt matter if they can afford to buy or not, they need to live somewhere, if they cant buy and its usual immigrants dont for quite some time, they will rent, this increases the demand on rental properties which increases rent which in turn entices more BTL'rs. Demand for houses for sale goes up which in turn pushes prices up.
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5. mark wadsworth said...
LOC, yes of course, all things being equal, more people in same number of houses = higher rents or higher prices, but we ought to look at [number of immigrants, and more importantly who, not how many] and [number of houses built] as too entirely separate topics.
6. Ringing Roger said...
Reading Uni modelled the effects of immigration on house prices a couple of years back and found that it accounted for about 7% of upward support.
7. Cypher007 said...
here in sunny Boston, Lincs that is, i find an awful lot of the locals rent whilst the better paid factory worker immigrants buy houses. ex. 2 houses bought buy immigrants another two being rented buy locals, and thats just where i live. funnily one of the houses that was being rented out by a local landlord to some locals, then went up for sale just before the election, advertised as having tenants, he then chucked them out and is now trying to sell it vacant for, and wait for it, £34k more than he paid for it about six months earlier.
8. mick rupert said...
"Nearly 100,000 new homes must be built every year for immigrants" - 100,000 new homes for EACH immigrant?
The world is indeed going to Hell in a handcart.
9. iguana said...
Could it be that the Mail has no reporters and is simply reissuing the stories that it ran during the 1930's ?. This looks a lot like the pro-Moseley sort of story published at the time. All they need now is a charismatic dictator figure with a weakness for uniforms and leather.
as cohort
10. landofconfusion said...
3. mark wadsworth said...
"LOC, yes of course, all things being equal, more people in same number of houses = higher rents or higher prices,"
Of course. And let's not forget maximum occupancy levels and disposable income.
11. Homoner said...
I am an immigrant - however I dont take up an extra home as my partner is English...
Money sloshes around the world and people will try to go where the money is albeit being suppressed from doing so..
The pressure of immigration without the world being in stasis socio-economically speaking