• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The first sentence is “The rise is driven by people arriving legally from outside the EU and the resumption of post-pandemic travel.”

    Are those usually the homeless?

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      1 year ago

      You seem to have me confused with someone arguing about refugees. I quoted the net migration. That means when you add up everyone who left, and everyone who arrived, 504,000 people were added to the UK. They need to sleep somewhere. Do you want them to sleep in tents?

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        1 year ago

        I’d believe you, except…

        "The latest house building statistics show that in the financial year ending March 2022 there were 204,530 dwellings completed in the UK. "