On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:42:14 +0000, Mike....
wrote:
>Following up to d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor
>(*)) wrote:
>
>>> my council house was victorian in origin and that doesnt alter the
>>> fact anyway
>>
>>It does, because there was a huge amount of council house building at
>>the same time as many new immigrants to the UK in the 50s and 60s.
>>Look at maps of smallish towns during this period and a lot of them ballooned
>>in size then. The council house I grew up in was built in around 1960.
>>The town almost doubled in area largely as a result of new council
>>houses built in that period.
>
>the over riding point is that immigration puts pressure on housing
>full stop.
The flat above me, the flat to the right of me are both completely
empty and have been for over 4months, the flat below me only got a
person in it 8 months after I moved in.
These are not crappy flats, and there's plenty available around here,
so I don't see anya local pressure being put on housing by the many
immigrants in the area, maybe it was just insanely over-supplied
previously.
Perhaps there's pressure on the 4 bedroom detached house with a large
garden, but, I've never had the few million required to bother looking
- so immigrants could be hurting that sector.
Jim. |