The Conservatives have pledged to prevent foreign nationals from accessing social housing as part of a plan to restrict entitlement to publicly allocated homes.
The party claims the proposed change would make around 230,000 homes available. The policy is framed around limiting eligibility for social housing, although the supplied material does not provide further details on how the measure would be implemented.
Social housing is allocated through eligibility rules and local authority processes, and the Conservative proposal would seek to change those entitlements for foreign nationals. The claim attached to the pledge is that a significant number of homes would become available if access were narrowed in this way.
No additional information is provided in the supplied material on the timetable for the proposal, whether any exemptions would apply, or how the figure of around 230,000 homes has been calculated.
The latest known position is that the Conservatives have made the pledge and are presenting it as a measure intended to increase the availability of social housing by restricting who can qualify.
