Housing for Immigrants
SIR,—Where immigrants are unpopular it is largely because they suffer from our housing shortage in a more spectacular way than the natives. This, more than any other factor, is the cause of Smethwick, Notting Hill and Deptford. In a by-election in 1963, I suggested the establish- ment of a housing association backed and financed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the parent countries, to advise and assist immigrants to get reasonable housing at fair rents and prices. Such an association would do a great deal to ease suffering, prevent overcrowding and the ghetto solution, and promote the preconditions necessary for understanding and assimilation. Will anyone willing to help me start an immigrants housing association please write to me?
JOHN D. BRIMACOMBE
Elmdown, Skinner!, Henley-on-Thames
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