Housing and migration have long been core concerns of ours at the CPS - and so has the impact of migration on housing.
Earlier this week, CPS Research Director Karl Williams crunched the numbers in response to ONS population projections suggesting the UK will grow by 6.6m by 2036.
Our analysis showed that in order to keep up with mass migration, which makes up 92% of the projected population growth, we would need to be building 382,000 homes a year. That is 82,000 more than the government's current target and over 60% more than the country actually managed to build in 2022. That's without mentioning the existing deficit from decades of under-building - 1.34 million homes over the past decade alone, according to our analysis.
As Karl wrote in The Spectator, unless something dramatic changes it's impossible to see how Britain can have both mass migration and affordable housing. The figures were also widely covered across Fleet Street, appearing for example in the Times, Mail and Telegraph.
