The claim
Almost 50% of social housing in London being occupied by immigrants whilst our own youth pay more than half their salary on rent.
Original publisher’s rating
Evaluation: Missing context The validity of the claim depends on how we measure the usage of housing stock and the definition of “migrants”. The original post is correct insofar as the head of the household in nearly half of social-rented households was born outside of the UK, but this is not the case when looking at the background of everyone who is a resident in such properties. In addition, around 75% of London social renters hold UK passports. Different figures from both Oxford’s Migration Observatory and the 2021 census show there are far fewer social renters in London who were migrants than of those born in the UK. Census figures further suggest foreign-born tenants are not using an outsized proportion of the housing stock.
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