In the last few days, the Guardian published an article about the increasing number of people over the age of 60 who are seeking help for homelessness. According to the paper, housing charities have seen cases of this demographic “developing health problems from being forced to sleep in their car for months, having to sleep on camp beds in emergency shelters and seeking homelessness support even while suffering illnesses such as cancer”.

Is it any wonder this is the case, given the UK’s terrible rates of housebuilding paired with decades of record-high immigration? It’d be extraordinary not to have a housing crisis in these conditions. What makes matters even worse, though, is the amount of taxpayer funding helping the international community move here.

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