https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-mass-immigration-is-worsening-the-housing-crisis/
Last year, we built 171,000 houses in England and 204,000 in Britain. This is well short of the government’s official target of 300,000 homes. But that target is based on the assumption that Britain is running a net migration rate of around 170,000 each year: something it’s not done for more than a decade. Instead, in 2022, Britain had a net migration rate of 745,000. This means that Britain actually needs to build at least 515,000 new homes each year, more than half of which are needed just to keep up with the extra demand because of immigration.
In England, to put this in context, it means that last year we only built around one-third of the homes that we now need to build because of immigration. We should be able to talk about this openly. We should be able to talk about how immigration is fuelling the housing crisis, driving up house prices and making many homes unaffordable for British families and British workers.
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