One of the most depressing aspects of conducting these council-by-council housing audits is the realisation that British taxpayers are being made to fund an extraordinary system of housing provision for people arriving from overseas. The money is earned by British workers, collected through taxation, and then used to provide accommodation, welfare and housing for foreign nationals. But it gets worse. The government is not merely spending billions on asylum accommodation, Afghan resettlement and Ukrainian housing. It is also providing councils with enormous capital grants to PURCHASE residential properties for these schemes. In some cases, councils are borrowing additional money to finance the acquisitions. Think about the implications of that. British people work, pay their taxes, struggle with astronomical rents, compete for scarce social housing and increasingly find themselves priced out of homeownership. Meanwhile, their taxes are being used to fund dedicated housing programmes for people arriving from abroad. In some cases, councils are even taking on long-term debt to acquire those properties. This is not simply about immigration. It is about the priorities of the British state and the extraordinary redistribution of taxpayers' money towards housing provision for foreign nationals. The more councils I audit, the more astonished I become at the scale of the expenditure and the long-term commitments. This is deeply unfair on so many levels.