Tories seek to bar foreign nationals from social housing, claim 228k homes could be freed

The Conservatives would end social housing tenancies for foreign nationals in England and cancel current tenancies for couples where neither person is UK/Irish/EU, aiming to free about 228,000 homes for British families; future tenancies would be limited to UK nationals and EU settled-status holders, while asylum seekers remain largely ineligible except in exceptional cases. Labour calls the plan unserious and unworkable, Shelter warns it would worsen homelessness, and about 1.34 million households are on social housing waiting lists.