Margaret Hodge described a recently arrived immigrant family with four or five children living in a damp and overcrowded, privately rented flat with the children suffering from asthma. She said they will usually get priority for a council house over a family with less housing need who have lived in the area for three generations and are stuck at home with the grandparents. She thinks this causes resentment. Do young people agree?
The minister emphasised that her concern is not about race or ethnic background. Many long-standing British families are black or Asian. Do young people think there is a risk this detail will be ignored? Might her arguments be used to give respectability to racist extremists?
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