Excellent analysis. I've also seen statistics based on tax receipts from the US and, I think, Holland (or maybe Denmark) indicating that blacks are massively revenue negative, as are Arabs and Hispanics albeit less so. All exactly as would be expected from IQ statistics.
I can't help but wonder if this connects to the birth rate problem. The considerable subsidies afforded recent migrants are paid out of the pockets of the native born, who then must contend with higher taxes, flattened wages, and increased housing costs, all of which make family formation less affordable.
Social housing isn’t free, although some people living in it receive housing benefit.
The reason London doesn’t have banlieu is because each borough has to provide housing, including the wealthy central ones, although in recent years they have being trying to export people on their lists to other parts of the country.
One positive aspect of this is that the city is better mixed, with poor and rich having to see each other regularly and being reminded of their existence; the experiences of zoning and redlining in the US demonstrates starkly what happens when cities create poverty ghettos.
London has long been a magnet for people trying to improve their lives, which means it always needs to have room for them, after all today’s refugee may well become tomorrow’s entrepreneur, or cardio-thoracic surgeon.
A truth of social housing is that when it’s provided, and well managed and maintained, is that it provides homes for people who work in essential but often low paid jobs, such as hospital cleaners, transport operatives, shop workers and of course postal workers. They often don’t have much disposable income and so enabling them to live close to their work places reduces their costs and helps keep local economies ticking over.
Our city needs more social housing, to provide safe and secure homes for people on low incomes. That will reduce pressure on the PRS, reducing costs for those who can’t or don’t want to live in social housing, and in turn helping to reduce the overall costs of housing in the city.
Excellent analysis. I've also seen statistics based on tax receipts from the US and, I think, Holland (or maybe Denmark) indicating that blacks are massively revenue negative, as are Arabs and Hispanics albeit less so. All exactly as would be expected from IQ statistics.
I can't help but wonder if this connects to the birth rate problem. The considerable subsidies afforded recent migrants are paid out of the pockets of the native born, who then must contend with higher taxes, flattened wages, and increased housing costs, all of which make family formation less affordable.
Social housing isn’t free, although some people living in it receive housing benefit.
The reason London doesn’t have banlieu is because each borough has to provide housing, including the wealthy central ones, although in recent years they have being trying to export people on their lists to other parts of the country.
One positive aspect of this is that the city is better mixed, with poor and rich having to see each other regularly and being reminded of their existence; the experiences of zoning and redlining in the US demonstrates starkly what happens when cities create poverty ghettos.
London has long been a magnet for people trying to improve their lives, which means it always needs to have room for them, after all today’s refugee may well become tomorrow’s entrepreneur, or cardio-thoracic surgeon.
A truth of social housing is that when it’s provided, and well managed and maintained, is that it provides homes for people who work in essential but often low paid jobs, such as hospital cleaners, transport operatives, shop workers and of course postal workers. They often don’t have much disposable income and so enabling them to live close to their work places reduces their costs and helps keep local economies ticking over.
Our city needs more social housing, to provide safe and secure homes for people on low incomes. That will reduce pressure on the PRS, reducing costs for those who can’t or don’t want to live in social housing, and in turn helping to reduce the overall costs of housing in the city.