Shortage of Social Housing in London
Bradford and Bingley | 14.05.2012 09:20
Figures just obtained from the Office of National Statistics show that foreign national families live in over 350,000 council and housing association properties in the capital while British nationals occupy 1.5 million. That is just under 20% of the entire stock of social homes which are occupied by those who have not been here long enough to obtain British nationality or have not bothered to do so.
These figures add to the growing evidence that the official data on who is being given new social housing lets massively under records the number going to foreign nationals in London. If they were only getting 11% of new lets they could not possibly now have 20% of the entire stock.
London Housing Action showed two weeks ago that while official data indicated that at least 11% of new social housing lets in London were given to foreign nationals there were huge gaps in the data. In some London Boroughs over one third of new tenants had no nationality recorded while, in others, only about half of new lets were included in the official statistics. This new data on who is actually occupying the stock of social housing shows the missing data on new lets is hiding the fact that a much larger proportion of social housing lets are going to foreign nationals than we have been led to believe.
Commenting, Errol Isalowan of the Caribbean Community Housing Trust, said “It seems that being British counts for nothing in the allocation of social housing. Those of us who came here at took British citizenship are now pushed down the list. We are not suggesting that anyone is “jumping the queue” but it is now clear that the result of a system based almost entirely on need has been to favour foreign nationals. This has been covered up for too long. There must be an enquiry to get the facts straight.”
London Housing Action showed two weeks ago that while official data indicated that at least 11% of new social housing lets in London were given to foreign nationals there were huge gaps in the data. In some London Boroughs over one third of new tenants had no nationality recorded while, in others, only about half of new lets were included in the official statistics. This new data on who is actually occupying the stock of social housing shows the missing data on new lets is hiding the fact that a much larger proportion of social housing lets are going to foreign nationals than we have been led to believe.
Commenting, Errol Isalowan of the Caribbean Community Housing Trust, said “It seems that being British counts for nothing in the allocation of social housing. Those of us who came here at took British citizenship are now pushed down the list. We are not suggesting that anyone is “jumping the queue” but it is now clear that the result of a system based almost entirely on need has been to favour foreign nationals. This has been covered up for too long. There must be an enquiry to get the facts straight.”
Bradford and Bingley
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Fabricated Disinformation
14.05.2012 09:54
The article above appears to be based on data from this racist organisation:
http://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2012/05/foreign-nationals-take-1-in-5-of-londons-social-housing.html
And a load of total fabrication -- "London Housing Action" appears to be an invented organisation, so does "Caribbean Community Housing Trust"...
The fact that this site is targeted by pro-Establishment disinformation operatives is telling in itself...
From the Wikipedia:
Disinformation (a direct translation of Russian дезинформация dezinformatsiya) is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. For this reason, it is synonymous with and sometimes called black propaganda. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
http://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2012/05/foreign-nationals-take-1-in-5-of-londons-social-housing.html And a load of total fabrication -- "London Housing Action" appears to be an invented organisation, so does "Caribbean Community Housing Trust"...
The fact that this site is targeted by pro-Establishment disinformation operatives is telling in itself...
From the Wikipedia:
Disinformation (a direct translation of Russian дезинформация dezinformatsiya) is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. For this reason, it is synonymous with and sometimes called black propaganda. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
trollwatch
Why the post is disinformation.
14.05.2012 12:07
The Housing Troll
http://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2012/05/foreign-nationals-take-1-in-5-of-londons-social-housing.html Para 1 and 2 are unchanged
In para 3 the first sentence is changed from:
Migration Watch UK showed two weeks ago that while official data indicated that at least 11% of new social housing lets in London were given to foreign nationals there were huge gaps in the data.
to
London Housing Action showed two weeks ago that while official data indicated that at least 11% of new social housing lets in London were given to foreign nationals there were huge gaps in the data.
ie the poster has attempted to obscure the real identity of the source (London Housing Action is not a real group)
The fourth para has been omitted from the Indymedia post
The fifth para in the original version reads:
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch, said “It seems that being British counts for nothing in the allocation of social housing. We are not suggesting that anyone is “jumping the queue” but it is now clear that the result of a system based almost entirely on need has been to favour foreign nationals. This has been covered up for too long. There must be an enquiry to get the facts straight.”
In the Indymedia version the paragraph has been amended to read:
Commenting, Errol Isalowan of the Caribbean Community Housing Trust, said “It seems that being British counts for nothing in the allocation of social housing. Those of us who came here at took British citizenship are now pushed down the list. We are not suggesting that anyone is “jumping the queue” but it is now clear that the result of a system based almost entirely on need has been to favour foreign nationals. This has been covered up for too long. There must be an enquiry to get the facts straight.”
ie 'Errol Isalowan' has had Andrew Green's words put into his mouth and given a unique sentence of his own.
His only web presence is in the Indymedia article and the same with the 'Caribbean Community Housing Trust'
The post was therefore hidden as 'inaccurate' and it is disinformation as described by trollwatch above:
"A common disinformation tactic is to mix some truth and observation with false conclusions and lies, or to reveal part of the truth while presenting it as the whole (a limited hangout)"
The poster was clearly aware that a repost from Migration Watch would be hidden (chairman = hierarchy)
Readers can make up their minds as to why a poster would resort to such subterfuge, and what their motivation for posting such a rank article to Indymedia uk might be.
"How can these posts be 'disinformation' if a quick check shows the information here to be true."
A quick check showed the information to be altered so that cannot be said to have been true.
It takes most people a while to work out how to post to a hidden thread, so we can deduce that this troll has previous.
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