Immigrants occupy one in every 15 homes in UK: Report

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Posted online: Thursday , January 17, 2008 at 07:20:34
Updated: Thursday , January 17, 2008 at 07:36:09

London, January 17: Immigrants in the UK occupy one in every 15 homes in the country, an official report has said, with experts predicting that four out of every ten new homes will be snapped up by migrants in the future.

Figures compiled for the British government’s Migration Impact Forum, which is studying the strain placed on the UK by the record number of arrivals from overseas, showed that immigrants occupy one in every 15 homes in the country.

However, the total, which is the first to be produced by Whitehall, does not include migrants who have since been granted British citizenship. Experts predict that four out of every ten new homes will be snapped up by migrants in the future.

The document, written by Joanne Roney of Sheffield City Council, said difficulties could arise if arrivals move into areas with little experience of immigrants. The report recommended that councils should set up organisations to deal with the impact of migration.

“This scale of housing occupation shows why the government should adopt our policy of setting an annual limit on the level of immigration, taking into account its impact on housing and the wider public service infrastructure,” the Daily Mail quoted Shadow Home Secretary David Davis as saying on Thursday.

“Instead, they have ignored the consequences of immigration, placing real pressures on local authorities,” Davis said.

In the coming years, 260 homes will need to be built every day to cope with the record influx from overseas mainly from Eastern Europe. According to the independent House of Commons Library, they will require 1.23 million homes over the next 13 years.

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