Interesting article in the torygraph.
I do think that the increased demand for social housing is due inpart to the massive increase in house prices as well, I am a teacher living in the SE and I am on the wait list for social housing, the bar in my area is at about £60K, which is a sizable family income, we are not even in London, I guess you could argue that this inflation in house prices is linked to an increased demand?. I also think that the exchange rate has a lot to do with E. Europe immigration, lots of Poles and others have left since the pound crashed. Although I do agree with most of the article. I'm suprised that European migration is only a third of migration though.
We do need a sensible debate, I still think that most BNP voters are out and out racist rather than 'left behind' by labour.