Tighter Immigration Controls Necessary to Tackle Housing Crisis Here and Abroad
Published:
Wed, Jan 13th 2021 @ 2:51 pm EST by Christy Shaw
Tighter immigration control is necessary to tackle the housing crisis and to protect our precious green space. — Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK
The United States is not alone in the fight to reduce the numbers. Immigration-driven population growth in the United Kingdom continues to cause heated tension among parliament members over increasing housing demands due mostly to immigration. According to a study by The Office of National Statistics and reported by Migration Watch UK, demand to bulldoze over more land will require construction of over 100,000 more homes per year, potentially even in the coveted and protected Green Belt areas among and around London suburbs. Migration UK reports:
Immigration is a key factor. 90% of additional households created in England were headed by a person born outside the UK during the decade leading up to 2015 (ONS figures -- summarised in table 2 of paper: "The impact of immigration on housing demand in England")...Around half of this (89,000 homes per year) would be due to additional demand resulting from immigration. We would therefore need to build one home every six minutes, night and day, in order to meet the demands generated by immigration - that's over 240 every 24 hours or ten every hour.
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/tighter-immigration-control-necessary-tackle-housing-crisis-and-protect-open-space
