House building targets raised by government

Last year, immigration was the *sole* driver of population growth for the first time – UK citizens’ deaths actually outnumbered births, in a year that saw the biggest UK population increase since those records began in 1971. Immigration is now literally the only thing growing the population at record pace and creating the need for so much housing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/08/migration-drives-fastest-population-increase-since-1970s/#:~:text=Migration%20has%20been%20the%20main,the%20year%20to%20mid%2D2023.

Per Migration Observatory, immigration is expected to drive 92% of the UK’s population growth to 2046, as we go from 67 million to 77 million. If net migration were 0, the population would shrink slightly from the levels now by 2031, and be around 65 million by 2046.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/the-impact-of-migration-on-uk-population-growth/

These predictions have usually only ever been wrong since the 1990s for one reason – they’ve underestimated future immigration. They previously thought we’d peak at 61 million by 2023, but we’re at 67 million.

If you ever feel like our infrastructure is overstretched, like it feels “crowded” in this country, especially in England, bear this in mind.

The idea that this is “all because of immigrants” sounds like a dumb bigoted talking point. But per the data above, this is *literally* the case for the explosion in our population. It’s also worth noting that every election winner since Blair has been promising to reduce and control immigration.

The question, therefore, is do you want to see even more of this country concreted over, to see villages and towns all around the country expanded, and our infrastructure even more overloaded, just so that we can continue mass immigration?

Remember guys, we need 1.5m houses that arent built yet, but we have enough houses for the 2.5m people that will show up while were building the 1.5m…

Thats not be being facetious, thats the deputy PM saying so

What do successive governments and/or the British people hate so much about increasing the density of and generally rebuilding our cities to be much more effective population centres that instead we/they resort to creating low density, poorly serviced housing on land that – even if currently ‘grey’ – could be farmed on or restored to wilderness.

We could effectively house people in this country if our cities weren’t so good awful.

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Maybe the native population would have a vague chance of reproducing if they were able to afford to live to a very basic standard, just a shot in the dark