Record immigration behind a third of rent rises
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/19/record-immigration-behind-a-third-of-rent-rises/
Posted by JayR_97
Record immigration behind a third of rent rises
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/19/record-immigration-behind-a-third-of-rent-rises/
Posted by JayR_97
25 Comments
2 million net migration in 3 years. You’d think it’s blindingly obvious that this would affect rents.
But I have little doubt we’ll be getting comments on here saying we just need to build more houses.
Adding so many to the population is so blindingly obviously a reason for the housing crisis, but so many treat their worldview like it’s a religion and won’t accept this reality.
Immigration needs to be reduced massively, and there’s no appetite in either the Tories or Labour to do anything about it other than pay lip service.
Doesn’t help the Tories decided to give free status to Ukraine and Hong Kong adding 200k to average net figures. Good thing we stick our nose in everywhere as global policeman.
Even small towns are affected by having foreign legal and illegal migrants and students. I don’t want to live in London!!
So, absolutely nothing to do with the total failure to build enough homes to keep up with even the domestic demand then? (Or sell the ones we did have to eventually end up in the hands of private landlords?)
If I was in charge, this would be my plan.
Let each council decide how many people they can take by considering housing capacity, hospital capacity, schooling capacity, jobs and council budget. Then add up the figures and we let that number in and ship them off to the councils with capacity. Anything else is bound to cause problems.
I’ve noticed these subs are now very quiet from the “adding 3 million immigrants in 2 years won’t affect housing” tribe. They seem to realise it’s not 2010 anymore and we actually see the outcome. Well done you people…you spoilt everything. Woketards!
lies. greedy landlords, housing is a human right. rent is theft.
So a fella jumps off a dingy at Dover and goes “You’re rents going up fella!” is that how it works?
Or is it landlords raising prices to gouge councils who foot the bill of immigrant housing and other landlords raising prices, because why not?
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Well we have a two party system where neither party will do anything about it because they almost all already own their own homes or are landlords themselves so the renter class can just suck it.
Don’t expect any change.
Government has poor immigration controls would be a better heading, because of course we’re going to paint another negative sentiment against the word, by placing blame immigration itself.
Other countries seem to have had a better grasp on things , including the requirements that would ensure you were going to contribute to the country and be able to speak the language.
I’ve seen a comment about Bradford, probably worth people brushing up on empire history, including World War I and II, and the impacts of post colonialism
Im not surprised the Torygraph is continuing to weaponize immigrants.
They are “in this together” after all.
Maybe rental controls would help as well? The UK used to have strong rental control until the 80s. In fact we had it longer than without.
Any guesses on who repealed that law?
Wouldn’t it be something if landlords didn’t increase rents to squeeze the most out of tenants though? Immigration or no immigration, they’ll do that anyway – don’t kid yourselves otherwise. The supply will still be kept lower than demand in order to keep prices high.
Well, Brexit means Brexit, isn’t it? Perhaps now Brexiteers can enlighten us on what THEY are going to do about a situation created by them.
You’re not allowed to say it though otherwise you’re a far-right racist.
I honestly despair.
I honestly hear more people speaking foreign language than I do English in some parts of the country
Before considering reading this shite, remember it’s the Jellygraph.
I have friends who maintain with a complete straight face, to this day, that there is no link between immigration and increased pressure on public services and housing. They just have some sort of mental block which I find so bizarre.
More people more tax more economic drill increased fertility iniiiiit
Where I live people from Hong Kong massively inflated house prices with their bullying house buying tactics.
I got called racists for that… but facts are facts…
Never would have guessed.
Once again that thing that people keep saying doesn’t happen, has happened.
Just waiting for the “Okay it IS happening BUT it is a good thing”.
The thing this article is missing is that immigration is vital to this country due to the natives falling fertility rate. This is the same across all of the western world. Businesses need workers and governments need a consistent source of taxable income.
They aren’t inviting immigrants out of the kindness of their hearts – it’s a policy decision taken to correct the projected falling birth rates in the future.
Really? You surprise me. Unlimited immigration with no infrastructure or housing being built. Who could have guessed it would have this impact?
the Telegraph will blame anything and everything on immigration
You’d think this is obvious to most people. But so many people choose to be blind to it.