Fact check Foreign-born people, not necessarily foreigners, occupy 48% of London’s social housing
Key context is missing from a widely shared online claim about the proportion of social housing that foreigners occupy in Britain’s capital London.
One post on X, which received more than 1.9 million views, said: “48% of London’s social housing is occupied by people who are foreign.”
Published on March 11, it included a heat map appearing to show the proportion of foreigners in social housing in each London area. “This is morally wrong,” the post added. “We can’t be the social...