I don't have much confidence in Labour doing much re: asylum seekers either. They might be good for infrastructure investment and overhauling planning, building more new homes etc.. but I'm not sure they're going to tackle the illegals or the issue with asylum seekers.
As D.P. was in complete denial of earlier it's not just illegals and failed asylum applicants (most of whom we don't end up deporting anyway) but we grant asylum at like twice the rate of some EU countries... yet we're all signed up to the same international convention on refugees and the same ECHR.
I think part of this is the civil servants within the home office, any government wanting to change this is going to have to force through a lot more legislation. We're both accepting too many and we've got such an inefficient system to remove them. The £1 million spent on deporting just one gang rapist was ridiculous.
The other issue is WTF are we doing housing them in inner London boroughs- it's tragic what happened to this woman but there was no need for her to be given free accommodation in Clapham in the first place.
There's a ridiculous amount of social housing now being allocated to people who weren't born here, that's a really bad indicator - social housing in central London is a huge state freebie for those fortunate enough to get it, most people are not net contributors to begin with let alone if you take into account the huge benefit they're getting with either free or subsidised accommodation. Even as legal immigrants, it's likely a big net drain for many in addition to occupying a resource that could be used by others.
It's. a bit of a lottery in some respects re: how it's allocated, with council housing the tenants can pass the lease on to heirs and rent paid (even though usually way below market rates) counts towards a discount if they ever wish to exercise the right to buy it. It's good to have *some* social housing but the proposals to build 50% social housing instead of the legal minimums are also stifling development, end result in you get less development and the development you do get is half allocated via some opaque system to lots of unproductive people, plenty of whom are foreigners/immigrants and meanwhile the more productive people are paying higher rents or mortgage costs.