Britain’s response to the refugee crisis seems under-pinned by the idea that ‘Britain is full’. There are no rooms to spare for refugees. Is this really the case ? There do seem to be some places with a lot of spare rooms. How about these ? (see slides for more)
Never mind spare rooms, what about spare houses?
?There are thought to be about 700,000 “long-term empty” homes in the UK, calculated from local authority council tax data.
? 22,000 of these are in London
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-ghost-town-lights-go-out-as-foreign-owners-desert-london-homes