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Revealed: How HALF of all social housing in England goes to people born abroad
By Gerri Peev, Political Correspondent
PUBLISHED: 17:42, 15 April 2012 | UPDATED: 18:06, 15 April 2012

British people who have paid their taxes should get priority in the social housing queue over new migrants, David Cameron�s poverty tsar has said.

Frank Field, the senior Labour MP, has called for a shake-up of the way housing is handed out as it emerged that nearly half of all social housing in parts of the country were given to immigrants.

Nearly five million families are languishing on waiting lists for subsidised housing in England.

Anger: Frank Field has described the trend as a scandal
But in parts of London, which has the most expensive rents and property prices in the country, nearly half the social housing is allocated to foreigners.
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Some boroughs did not record nationality details of social tenants which made it nearly impossible to properly scrutinise who is at the top of the queue.

Mr Field described the trend as a �scandal� that �must stop�.

�For years we have been told that British people on the waiting list for social housing are getting a fair deal,� Mr Field said.

�Yet, when the situation in London is examined, we find that, in reality, nobody has any idea how many new lets are going to foreign nationals and how many to British citizens.�

'The records are in chaos' - MigrationWatch
�This scandal must stop. I have a bill before parliament that will ensure that those citizens who have made most contribution to society, who have paid their taxes and whose children have not caused trouble, for example, will have first choice of any housing available.

�This would be a major change in our welfare state whereby benefits have to be earned rather than automatically allocated on need.�

The numbers of social housing tenants who were foreign have increased in the last four years to 8.6% in 2010-11, according to Department for Communities and Local Government figures.

But in London, where the waiting list has soared by 60% to 362,000 in the last decade because of rising house prices, a far greater proportion of housing is handed out to new migrants.

In Haringey, 43% of new tenants in social housing are foreign while in Ealing the figure is 45%.

Some councils failed to release information based on nationality but on average at least 11% of social housing lets in London are given to foreign nationals.

Mr Field, a former Social Security Secretary, demanded that the Government should also carry out an inquiry into �who gets the available social housing and when�.

In 2010-11, 8.6% of all new social housing tenants were foreign nationals, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) figures showed.

Ministers have tried to stop far right parties from exploiting concerns about the impact immigration has had on housing.

They have pointed to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) which in 2009 said migrants arriving in the UK over the previous five years made up less than 2% of the total of those in social housing.

But MigrationWatch said boroughs with large immigrant populations had been the least cooperative in providing information on who was being allocated social housing.

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Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch said, �The present situation is a scandal. The records are in chaos. British people who have lived in the area for many years are given little or no priority.�

�What is clear is that the proportion of new lets going to foreign nationals in London is far higher than has previously been admitted.�

He added that only British citizens - including those who were foreign born but had taken up citizenship - should be considered for social housing.

He added: �Foreign nationals would still get housing allowance but not social housing; there is no reason why they should be entitled to subsidised housing provided by British taxpayers while British citizens spend years in the queue.�

David Cameron recently unveiled plans to expand the �right to buy� scheme for council tenants.

The flagship policy of Margaret Thatcher helped millions of poor families realise their dreams of owning their own home.

No foreigner should get social housing until ALL British subjects are housed, infact it would be better to get rid of all the foreigners who have no business here, just think of the money we would save.
Not only money but jobs, school and hospital places, less water usage, more room on the trains and roads, lets do it now, independence for the British.

2Anne · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 399 Location: Norfolk

Not only are immigrants wanting FREE housing ie social,they are almost certainly on welfare. How much is this costing the UK tax payer??
In spite of this Camerloon and his shoddy govt. allow more and m ore of this dross to flood in. In the future we will have huge numbers of black and brown people living only on welfare and creating third world ghettoes all over the country.
Thankyou UK traitors/Politicians.

thomas davison · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject:

Go to any supermarket near a large council estate. Stand back and look at all the young men and women, with toddlers and babies, doing their shopping during the day who clearly aren't at work. Then look at the pile of goodies in their trolley - 6 boxes of blueberries, 3 of strawberries, 6 of fresh raspberries,cut flowers (4 bunches) and oodles of smoothies, fresh fish, meat, designer pasta, chocolates etc. As you walk past you'll hear them speaking in a non English language. You'll also notice that they have a very expensive mobile eg Blackberry. This is where so much of our money is going. . We are keeping far far too many people who haven't contributed anything to our nation. And we're paying them far too much. No wonder we're bust. The bankers screwed us for �1,500 trillion and the benefits scroungers screw us for the rest.

There should be no housing or welfare if they have not worked for at least a year, we do not need hangers on the sooner we get out of the EU the better.