Housing shortages would not disappear if migration were halted tomorrow

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Ahead of the publication of the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual UK Housing review later today, author John Perry looks at the impact of migration-dependent population growth on housing demand

Just as we were putting the finishing touches to the Chartered Institute of Housing’s UK Housing Review (UKHR) 2025, new population projections came out.

 Over the next ten years, they projected the UK population to increase by almost five million people. Furthermore, with births and deaths expected to be in balance, as the chart from the Review shows, all of this increase results from net migration.

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