The U.K. in 2019 -

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According to figures compiled by the House of Commons Library, an average of 127,000 homes a year have been built in England and Wales since the Tories took office in 2010. This is the lowest level since Baldwin's first stint as Prime Minister in 1923, when just 86,000 homes were built.9 May 2017.

We fear mentioning immigration because of accusations of racism

Too right, Chucky. If there were 10-20 million fewer people in this country, there would be enough housing for our own citizens. I'm not a Tory, but they have built more housing than Labour ever did under Blair. Also, Mr Wilson, when Prime Minister, closed down more mines than Mrs Thatcher did but it's always the Tories who get bashed for that too!
re benefits, I don't know why anyone should expect to receive any hand-outs from the government or produce more children than they can afford to feed and house themselves, funded by other working tax payers, of course. People should make their own way in life.

Yet despite this we are expected to take our share of immigrants every year, who will occupy the houses that could be given to our own homeless and those who live in squalor or poor rental conditions.

It’s truly shocking.

I’m appalled when landlord and business owners exploit their tenants/employees. How can they sleep at night when they wouldn’t like a member of their own family to live/work in such awful conditions? Where is their humanity? Exchanged for money in the bank I suppose.

In 2018 Philip Alston, the Special UN rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights reported that the U.K. governments’ cuts to benefits and social support, were entrenching high levels of poverty and inflicting unnecessary misery , driven by the ideological desire to undertake social re-engineering, rather than good social policies.

Unsurprisingly the Tory government rejected this damning report.
Well they would wouldn’t they?

Another report by Bristol University which looked at three activities or items deemed necessary for life in the U.K. in 2014 showed that the proportion of households lacking these necessities had risen to 33%.