THE EQUALITY IMPLICATIONS OF BEING A MIGRANT IN BRITAIN
The Continuous Recording (CORE) data (on who has been offered new tenancies by all registered housing associations and most local authorities, but with some significant gaps) has recorded nationality since 2007, and now publishes these figures, but with no national totals. The published national data show that ethnic minority tenants in general needs and supported housing lettings account for around one in five of all tenants (Tables 7.3 and 7.4). Table 7.3 CORE national overview, England, 2006/7 General needs lettings
Year
2007/8 2006/7 2005/6 2004/5
Number of GN Lettings
Lone adult households (%)
198,925 191,186 156,387 162,357
Tenants Ethnic Statutorily in full minority homeless employment tenants households (%) (%) (%)
34.7 34.8 34.5 32.9
22.2 21.8 24.0 22.5
22.2 17.7 17.0 17.4
18.9 19.1 18.7 17.5
Source: CORE data, 2008/9.
Table 7.4 CORE national overview, England, 2004–8 Supported housing lettings
Year 2007/8 2006/7 2005/6 2004/5
Number of lettings 107,252 103.515 96,896 66.576
Number of units
Lone adult households (%)
Job Seekers (%)
3,727,399 3,518.628 3,180,423 2,061,646
54.2 57.6 60.9 73.8
23.8 25.3 28.2 35.2
Statutorily Ethnic homeless minority households tenants (%) (%) 19.6 20.0 19.3 18.9 20.8 17.7 26.8 19.0
Source: CORE data, 2008/9.
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has done some useful work on tenure using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) data (which includes information on tenure and country of birth) over a one-year period, which they have prepared for use later in a report commissioned by the Commission on social housing allocations and migrants (Rutter and Latorre, forthcoming). Figure 7.1 shows that new migrants are concentrated in the private rented sector, but also that the percentages of new migrants, foreign-born and UK-born, in social housing are quite similar, at 11–18 per cent. The data does not distinguish between types of migration, but it is reasonable 94