WHICH IS WHY OUR HOUSING BOOM IS JUST GETTING STARTED:

Migration 'not home crisis cause' (BBC, 6/18/06)

The government has denied claims its approach to immigration is the cause of a housing crisis, saying more single households are to blame.

It comes after Migrationwatch said projected housing demand figures were based on the assumption that net UK immigration would be 65,000 a year.

From 1996 to 2004 the actual level averaged 140,000 a year, it claimed.

Meanwhile, a council has warned that migrant workers wanting to stay in the UK could create a housing shortage.

They come here and all they want to do is buy homes and fuel the economy...

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 19, 2006 6:46 AM