Immigrants and the reality of the housing crisis

During the Cold War most of western Europe was aligned with the United States through membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), while the Soviet Union maintained garrisons in its satellites under the terms of the Warsaw Pact.

Both in the Netherlands and Belgium, the right-wing parties have scared people of coming immigrants. They act as if those refugees or land invaders are all freeloaders hoping to live here at the community’s expense.

In France too, immigrants are head of juts. But it is not only there that the right-wing parties are vehemently opposed to ‘inward migration’.

Belgium and the Netherlands face a huge housing shortage; Housing is a very high problem there. In the Netherlands, independent young people cannot get a rental house even into their mid-thirties.

British households ‘must brace for tax rises over next five years’ Both Labour and the Conservatives are engaged in a “conspiracy of silence” over the dire state of the public finances, said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS.

Money

The ‘real reason’ for the housing crisis By Ben Wilkinson Telegraph Money Editor During the Channel 4 debate earlier this month, Reform’s Richard Tice gave the Government both barrels over mass immigration. “One person is arriving legally every minute. That means we need to build a new home, just for those arriving, every two minutes”, the Party’s chairman claimed. Nigel Farage, Reform’s leader, has gone further and said that immigration is the “real reason” for Britain’s housing crisis. Housing is a key election issue but just how much of the affordability crisis can be blamed on immigration? Telegraph Money’s Josh Kirby has looked at this very question in detail – to find out the truth about immigration and house prices.

 

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