Is the massive rise in UK homelessness connected with mass immigration?

[The last Brit in London]

because both seemed to rise at the same time.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/m...sness-rise

[eastlondon02]

There is a lot of homeless people who come from places like Afghanistan and Irag, Alot are sleeping rough in cemeteries and under bridges in and out of prison and alot are going back on the streets

'Why do people keep referring to the past when people in the UK talk about immigration? Yes people turned up in the 1950s, Different situation. two vastly different circumstances..

The UK today in 2013 is completely different then it was in the late 40s and 50s...

UK today is Overcrowded

UK in the 50s was not..

[Chris]

Possibly, although a general rise in population will give increased homelessness.

[Motorbike]

It can be... depends how you look at it.

You could say soldiers are becoming homeless because when they come back from tour half the houses have been taken by people coming in the UK. You could say contraband like drugs are becoming more used and taking over peoples lives and slowly financially cripple them until no money is left.

Or imigrants come into the UK, have nowhere to go and are homeless.


these are possible reasons to be expanded on

[Patrick]

Sorry but it is unfair because for decades Britain has encouraged people to come. We were not complaining after the war - but now everything is built and you are sick of them. Do you understand how contradictory it all sounds?

[Crow]

Simple answer is YES of course it is. Anyone with half a brain knows that you cannot get three pints into a one pint glass. Apparently leftist ideology doesn't recognise basic physics nor common sense. The fact is that Immigration has way out grown our ability to keep up. We cannot improve our infrastructure fast enough to accommodate even a 1/4 of the numbers crossing our borders. The only political party that has recognised the problem in UKIP, who have stated in their manifesto that they will close Britains borders for a period of five years to give the country a chance to round up and remove illegals, and basically a period in which to play catch up with the infrastructure. It will also allow a period of serious debate. Some thing that the present three parties will not allow.

[me again!]

Prob iraqi immigrants sleeping rough in a cold country having left a warm one, dull fckers.

I'm thinking frying pans and fires ...

[Jake]

Five main factors one solution:

1) Open EU boarders and War-Migrant as well as illegal and legal Immigration from allover caused it
2) Economy / Bank clusterfock caused it.
3) Benefit cuts to working class and scroungers/disabled people cause homelessness
4) Parents kicking out kids, ruining there places in higher education and stable life to youth adulthood.
5) The Education and Courts/Prison System seems to fail to give help to those who need it most, they give up on you.

Solution? The best solution would be to vote UKIP and close boarders to new immigrants and war-zone hobbity-hop-scotch immigrants people who want refuge who say "oh no you bombed my house blablabla give me compensation or i am scared of a war zone please give refuge to me and my 5 kids who are all from different dads, and build us mosques on your tax payers money to help us be religious" Then they end up trying to convert people, and fling there hatred on westerners, yet they came here for refuge or there parents did etc... LIKE COME ON IT IS OBVIOUS WHO IS TO BLAME. They also take on all the night jobs in supermarkets, or claim off the system which was built to help people who were actually from Britain...

The only thing i hate is that the conservatives are using what UKIP had as the best weapon to get into Parliament, yet wont do it until 2017 if elected, when UKIP will do it straight away is to leave the EU which nobody wants but until the EU let us have our own immigration policy's and all that lark they can go shove it up there asses, although in future years to come we are going to need the EU on our side, and that is probably why we are helping Mali and surrounding countries in Africa.

If, the econemy collapse and debt crisis did not happen, then this question would probably be only in the back of the minds of a Racist BNP supporter, yet it did happen and we can not afford to support them so why on earth are they let in.... LEAVE THE EU........ ITS NOT HARD, WE CAN STILL HAVE ALLIANCES WITH THE GOOD EU MEMBERS SUCH AS FRANCE,SPAIN AND SWEDEN/SWITZERLAND,NORWAY DUTCH. WHO CARES IF MISS PIGGY IN GERMANY THINKS ITS A BAD IDEA OR AMERICA... AMERICA YOU ONLY WANT US IN THE EU TO BENEFIT YOUR SELF when you arent even in the EU so why on earth do you think we should do what you say...

[SID SNOTT.]

I read your link to the Guardian article and even though i am up here in Scotland on the periphary Glasgow, i am fully aware of the situation in London with regards to immigration and allocation of social housing,as i have a relation who lives in the same borough of Wandsworth as does miss Munoz in the link article.

I have relations in Manchester, Leeds and Lancashire too in England, so i do have a good insight into the migration situation in England both first hand and by media and awareness of the situation.

As you know London is bursting at the seams with the evidence of 15 years of mass unabated migration, both legal and probably mostly illegal, London borough councils across the Metropolis have operated a dispersion system for about the same time as when New Labour got into office in 1997, this system is to allay the pressure on local authourities in London and its surrounding Conurbation, this system has been welcomed by many cash strapped city and town councils across the United Kingdom, not just in England or Wales but here in Scotland too, and as Glasgow city council proudly lauds itself as Europes biggest landlord with the largest housing stock of any local authourity, you can guess that much of the overspill of asylum seekers from the metropolis and Birmingham have made their way up to cold, wet , dark Glasgow that still has excessive amounts of 1950s and 60s/70s tower blocks mixed in with giant housing estates that were put up with little planning and thought after WW2, and to house the people of Glasgow who lived in slums prior to this, that were knocked down from the 50s to the 70s, well they never had much choice really as they built a motorway directly through the city cutting it in two and raising to the ground the inner core of what was one of the most densley populated cities in europe and world wide at the time.

Most people who moved into these blocks have moved on in life and many would not live in them after 30 or 40 years of economic depression, violence and drug abuse on an olympic scale, so Glasgows ugly and grey tower blocks are now the home to Londons excess asylum seekers, and this has transformed this place into a complete shithole, but still they come and they are gaining social housing in the more desirable back and front doors and in the many tenements of the city and in the sattelite towns and surrounding boroughs here such as Motherwell, East Kilbride , Paisley, Clydebank etc, and these people are a precious resource to local authourities as they are an income for cas strapped councils who operate on a discriminatory basis that excludes the locals from gaining access to social, housing in their own town or city, whilst Afghans and Nigerians and Pakisatanis and Polish get housed at the locals expense, obviously this is happening all across the UK and even in the far flung towns of Scotland and England and Wales, basically anywhere where there is social housing, and a revenue can be had from people who in most cases cannot speak English and never will for the most par, and most will certainly not adopt the culture.

Then you wonder why you hear of local councils talking of building a Polish community, or a Somali community or Nigerian community etc etc etc etc, and it does not take the most skilled mathematician to ad 2+2 and realise that we are being driven out of our own communities and our cultures are being usurped, all across the UK people do not recognise large swathes of their towns and cities, and its usually most noticable in the central area or city or town centres where all the new arrivals go shopping every day. There is a massive rise in homelesness there is no douubt , but is this visible for the most part and who are they? British, Polish, African, Pakistani?

There is as the article mentions a lot of hidden homelessness, and i have no doubt a large proportion of this are UK born and bred people, from younger to older to x British army, and no doubt there is as many who arrive by the thousands each day from all across the globe.

I live in social housing in Paisley, i had an African asylum seekerliving above me and who was to be deported, the local authourity put this person back into the community and into social housing, i caught two young African males from the flat with a key in my flat door trying to gain access, i gave chase , but got they got away, i reported it to the police and council, but they never said anything, there was a rape in the building two weeks ago by an Eastern European, there is groups of Eastern Europeans drinking and smoking weed in the building most days, i walk out on the street and its unusual to hear English being spoken. Welcome to broken back Britain.

The short answer is: Do bears crap in the woods?

[Redmonk]

Yes, but that's not the only thing that is affected by mass immigration, the only political party that is committed to deal with the problems we are experiencing is the BNP, unfortunately they get very little media coverage but amazingly still progress. At the moment all three of the old main stream parties see the BNP as a real threat because the BNP have been continually informing us about mass immigration and the consequences of which are now plain to see. Consequently the cons, Lab and Libs are pushing UKIP up the ladder because they know they can be controlled, they are even talking about UKIP taking part with a hustings with the three main political parties.

ATB Red