Do you agree with Margeret Hodge?
The test looks at whether the applicant’s residence in the UK is of a settled nature, the length and continuity of residence, employment or prospects of work, family ties, history, and the applicant’s long term intentions as demonstrated by actions (like obtaining furniture, registering for services, joining institutions). If the applicant is deemed not to be habitually resident in the UK, they will not be eligible for assistance.
Asylum seekers are a different ball game and for anyone who has any interest in this, this is a good link for you to have a look at; http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/h...
As an ex Local Authority Housing Needs Manager, I am clear that the vast numbers in Housing Need is not down to the rise of immigrants in the UK neither is it because of the numbers seeking asylum in the UK. It’s about supply and demand. Housing supply in the past has not been sufficient to take account of current demand. Poor housing policy during the Thatcher years, which was preceded by a lack of social housing investment, has left us where we are today.
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good question nev i totally agree,selling council properties and not keeping up with demand by building new ones and the property prices alienating first time buyers ,put us here.a combination of greed and bad government.
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In a word YES! and it's been going on for years.
I dont think immigrants are the cause of the housing problems...although I do think Britain should take care of it's own before inviting more people in. We have horrendous unemplyment, NHS waiting times and homelessness so why invite thousands more people into the country every month?
I think she what she has said has a grain of truth but is dangerously misleading. The shortage of social housing is due to the sale of council housing (which I agree with) not being balanced by building new council housing. In the private sector, it is due to people buying properties bigger than they need, hoping to make money out of it, or even keeping it empty ("buy to sit").
It is certainly true that perceptions of unfairness in housing allocation are a serious cause of resentment among communities and against newcomers; but the answer is not to blame the newcomers, but to do something about the wider housing problem. Having said that, I think there may be a case for limiting the access of recent EU migrants to social housing, on the basis that they have come here by choice; but the case of refugees is quite different, they do not have the option of returning to their countries.
People need to remember that nearly as many people are leaving the UK as are entering; so the housing shortage cannot be mainly due to immigrants.
One point of correction about the EU: nationals of the eight "A8" Easter European countries that joined on May 1 2004 at the same time as Cyprus and Malta have the right to work in the UK; nationals of the two countries that joined this year, Bulgaria and Romania, have as yet no employment rights, and essentially no possibility of accessing benefits or social housing.
The Labour government has backed any country that wants to join the E.U going full speed ahead with enlargement. Then it tries to pick up the pieces later, but with the government spending a fortune rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan instead of building houses for all the poor sods trying to get on the housing ladder in the U.K. the situation will only get worse i'm afraid.
I have never understood why the British tax payer has to stump up for services given to foreign nationals. Immigrants and migrant workers come here by choice with less thought for their continued welfare than I would give to a week-end in Margate. As for asylum seekers, they are required (by UN resolution) to stop in the first country that offers them no threat. Given that Britiain is ringed by liberal democracies and that most of those are similarly bordered by liberal democracies, one wonders how asylum seekers manage to cross half a continent to fetch up on my shores and bring my services to the point of collapse.
It seems simple to me ; if you're not a member of the club, you can't drink the beer.
Well i hope your on the housing list and see all these poles and immigrants getting housed before you and as for work the minimum wage has destroyed the working man a man who goes to work wants a living wage not hand outs so the answer is simple get the standard of living up and they will be no need for poles or immigrants to do meaningless jobs and if your on the minimum wage and happy well you crack on and if they were no free hand outs to rift raft from other countries they would be no rush for them to come
Have you ever heard such f**k**n nonsense in all you life?
13 YEARS OF TORY MIS-RULE?
Some Half-wit in Labour has had the bright idea of going on Q&A to spout the same tired old nonsense!
As a former Labour "anything" you ought to hang your F**k**n head in shame!
Everyone knows that Labour Local Councils give preference to Non-whites and immigrants.
Anyone can buy an Insurance Number from some crook in the DHSS.
Margaret is just paving the way for that tw*t Brown to give a few sound-bites: "Tough on the Causes" ,"Earn the trust of the People" and "Open-ness"
By the way, what kind of a poncy title do you call that? "Assistant-deputy-head-pricipa... cr*p?
Get back on to the pages of the "Guardian"
Amen to that.
Margaret Hodge is just another cynical Labour politician looking for an advantage. Since this government threw away the keys of our door as far as immigration went this is what happens.
The housing problem is exacerbated due to immigrants and only those who will not see have a problem facing this fact
Thumbs down is either an immigrant or one of those deliberately blind I mentioned. Thumbs down should read the Deputy Prime Ministers report on this subject in my Link below
It has been shown that immigration is responsible for 32% of housing demand ( see the link), where do you think immigrants live if they are not a part of housing demand?
I have not read of any government agency giving out any statistics (if you could believe them anyway) on this perceived problem of immigration into England.
Never-the-less perception is 100% reality to any of us until proven to be inaccurate.
So whilst the government will not give out give any true statistics, perception is reality.
I agree with you in part, but it is a fact that immigrants and migrants are given priority in housing, housing does get earmarked for foreign workers.
When did you last hear of an immigrant or migrant in a hostel for the homeless, yet there must be hundreds of thousands of British born people in these places.
Yes I agree with Margaret Hodge but I think her motives are more to do with votes rather than a genuine interest in the British people.
i totaly agree with what she said having to wait over 11 years for a place off my local council is diabolical when immigrants get it after an interview supply and demand when are these people going to see that most of the demand is with the british people not with the immigrants who cares about the treaty we signed its just been abused and used as an excuse to let immigrants in and push us out where for every 1 british person leaving the uk, 22 immigrants come in this needs to stop and fast.
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