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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 7
Tories Plan 230,000 Social Housing Evictions, Giving Foreign Tenants 6 Months to Leave
Updated
Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 7

Tories Plan 230,000 Social Housing Evictions, Giving Foreign Tenants 6 Months to Leave

3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 7

Summary

  • More than 230,000 people would face eviction under Conservative plans to end social housing for foreign nationals, with affected tenants given six months to leave.
  • Kemi Badenoch cast the proposal as a way to stop Britain being a "cash machine for the UK," sharpening the party's push to reserve homes for British families.
  • Labour called the plan an "unserious, unworkable proposal" copied from Reform, while earlier criticism from housing groups warned it could drive homelessness.
  • The proposal follows the Conservatives' broader pledge to bar foreign nationals from new social housing tenancies in England and to reclaim some existing homes from non-UK, non-Irish and non-EU households.

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