An Equality and Human Rights Commission report addresses concerns that migrants jump queues when it comes to getting social housing assistance in Britain:
According to the study, 64% of people who arrived in the UK within the last five years live in private rented accommodation.
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Just 11% of new arrivals get help with housing - almost all of them asylum seekers.
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But after five years, when many immigrants are able to get residency and become entitled to government help, one in six live in social housing - exactly the same proportion as those who were born in Britain.
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The report - based on figures from the 2007 Labour Force Survey - was carried out by the centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research think tank.
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
Leonard Cohen
Excerpt from "Everybody Knows"
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